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Gov. Mitch Daniels refused to answer this morning when asked if he will stay as governor if he runs for president.

Asked by The Indianapolis Star if he would resign to pursue the GOP nomination for the presidency, Daniels first said: “There’s too many ifs in that question for me to answer it.”

Pressed again, he said: “I haven’t even thought about it.”

Daniels spoke briefly to Indiana reporters this morning after a Statehouse memorial to President Ronald Reagan, for whom Daniels worked as political director. Daniels left immediately afterward to fly to Washington, D.C., where he is speaking on Friday evening to the Conservative Political Action Conference.

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I would assume he would stay in office due to the scheduling of Indiana's Legislative sessions.