Huckabee: Romney was only opponent to not call on the night of 2008 Iowa caucus.
According to Mike Huckabee, Romney was the only one of the major contenders for the GOP nomination in 2008 not to call on caucus night in 2008, when Huckabee won the victory over Romney that was seen as blunting Romney’s momentum against John McCain. The race was an ugly one at times, and Romney took some blows. And, according to Huckabee, he never picked up the phone afterwards.
Huckabee then goes on to recount going on stage to give his acceptance speech despite the snub from Romney. Some contemporaneous accounts of the evening found on NEXIS Wednesday backed up Huckabee’s telling that he got calls from McCain and Rudy Giuliani before going on stage but don’t mention a Romney call specifically.
Last night, the Romney campaign noted both that Gingrich had failed to call after Romney beat him in New Hampshire — and that Romney had called Gingrich in South Carolina after Gingrich won, perhaps trying to avoid another book passage like the one from Huckabee.
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