All of a sudden, Mike Huckabee is being mentioned as a possible running mate for Donald Trump if he runs the table. I really hope this isn’t the case, but speculation about Huckabee is getting even louder now that Trump has announced a post-Iowa event in Arkansas where Huckabee was governor. If it’s just Huckabee dropping out of the race and endorsing Trump, then I’m ok with that. But Trump would be a fool to take Huckabee as his running mate if it ever came to that.
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Why, Mike Huckabee’s from Arkansas, come to think of it. And the Trump event in Little Rock seems to have been added only within the past 24 hours or so, right around the time Huckabee was reaching out to Trump about attending his rally for vets last night. Probably no one in the field has attacked Trump’s main rival, Ted Cruz, more doggedly over the last few weeks than Huckabee. Rubio’s hit him hard too, but Rubio and Cruz are battling to be the anti-Trump and there are lines even Rubio won’t cross in hitting Cruz, like his “natural-born” eligibility. Huckabee’s attacking Cruz for the sheer spiteful joy of wrecking the guy whom the evangelical establishment chose over him, and he has backed Trump up on Cruz’s eligibility by saying it’s a legitimate issue. Why, ol’ Huck even plugged Trump’s line of ties at the debate in October. Hmmm.