“Of all the election cycles I’ve been involved in, this has been one of the most bewildering”, Huckabee said in January in Urbandale, Iowa.
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He spoke with Dr. Andy McGure with the Democratic Party, and Republican Presidential Candidate, Mike Huckabee, during the newscast. He was finishing a disappointing 9th in the state he carried eight years ago.
For Huckabee, it is a disappointing end to what could be his last bid for public office by the second-most famous politician from Hope, Arkansas.
In addition, the former governor is reportedly having money woes.
Since announcing his run on May 5, 2015, in his hometown of Hope, Arkansas, Huckabee ran a campaign centered on social conservatism, protecting entitlement programs from cuts and completely revamping the federal tax system. The former pastor found himself losing evangelical support to Ted Cruz and other GOP candidates.
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Huckabee had tried in recent weeks to chip into Cruz’s lead among socially conservative voters, questioning the freshman Texas senator’s commitment to causes important to them.
