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Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha has announced he will not run for governor.
He stated that Attorney General is the only elected office he has been interested in holding.
Neronha has not endorsed any other candidates but expressed a desire for new leadership in the governor's office.
PROVIDENCE – Rhode Island's term-limited Attorney General Peter Neronha has ruled out a run for governor.
In the last two weeks, he told The Journal, he wrote two statements on his political intentions.
One version would have announced his entry into the Democratic competition for governor against incumbent Dan McKee and his only announced challenger, former CVS executive Helena Foulkes , while the second version announced he would not.
On Friday, Oct. 3, Neronha, 61