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Asked if he could see his name being thrown into the ring during a contested Republican convention, former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore said he did not expect to be the party's nominee. Jim Gilmore: 'I don't expect to be the nominee'

Add another one to the list of “not me” for president.

Former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore, who failed to make much of an impact during his presidential run, hovering around 1 percent in the polls, told CNN Wednesday he doesn’t expect to be the nominee.

“Do you see any possibility of anyone running a Gov. Gilmore on any of those ballots?” host Brooke Baldwin asked in reference to a contested convention in which Donald Trump fails to get the 1,237 delegates needed to win the nomination outright. The question of a dark horse candidate has swirled as House Speaker Paul Ryan on Tuesday officially ruled out becoming the nominee, saying that person should be someone who actually ran for president.

“I ran for president, I ran hard because I thought I had better policies than the other candidates. At the end of the day, the situation developed in such a way that I could not be the nominee. I don't expect to be the nominee,” Gilmore said. “But I do hope to have a chance to go to Cleveland with the Virginia delegation so I can play a constructive role.”