Mike Huckabee Joins Republican Presidential Race
Source: New York Times
Mike Huckabee, who excited evangelical voters in his first presidential race in 2008 and retains much of their good will, announced on Tuesday that he will again seek the Republican nomination, despite a crowded field of rivals for his natural base in the party.
A former Southern Baptist pastor and Arkansas governor, Mr. Huckabee is returning in hopes of once more dominating among social conservatives, but he is acutely aware he needs broader support to avoid the snares of last time, when he ran dry of money and failed to appeal much beyond the South.
“I announce that I am a candidate for president of the United States of America,” he said to a crowd of cheering supporters.
It was no small detail that he declared his candidacy in Hope, where he was born. Its fame as the hometown of an even better-known Arkansas politician, Bill Clinton, highlights a major theme of Mr. Huckabee’s 2016 pitch – that he is well suited to be the Republican nemesis for Hillary Rodham Clinton, if she becomes the Democratic nominee, because Mr. Huckabee spent years in state politics triumphing over what he calls the “Clinton machine.”
Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/06/us/politics/mike-huckabee-running-in-republican-presidential-primary.html?
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Officially or with exploratory committees we have, so far: Bush, Carson, Christie, Cruz, Fiorina, Graham, Huckabee, Jindal, Pataki, Paul, Perry, Rubio, Santorum, Trump and Walker. Fifteen. And those are just the ones we've heard of; there are also these guys, who are more obscure and in some cases even loonier: Andrews, Bowers, Christensen, Dummett, Everson, Hill, Kinlaw, Lynch, Petyo and Russell. Then throw in potentials Ehrlich, Kasich, King and Snyder. http://2016.republican-candidates.org/#Declared-Republican-Candidates
I think we're gonna need a bigger clown car.
The parade of hopefuls keeps growing.
