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| Subject: LOL: Huckabee ends campaign: 'Voters are sick of me' Tue Feb 02, 2016 1:44 am | |
| DES MOINES — Mike Huckabee withdrew from the Republican presidential race after a poor showing in the Iowa caucuses, an event he won just eight years ago.
Huckabee joked with supporters that he was ending the campaign because of illness: “Voters are sick of me,” he quipped.
He told about 200 campaign staff and supporters gathered at a West Des Moines event center that he had called the top three vote-getters — Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, businessman Donald Trump and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio — and congratulated them.
“They were very gracious. That’s easy to do when you win,” he laughed.
The former Arkansas governor had a harder time gaining traction in the Hawkeye State this time around. While Huckabee held town hall-style question-and-answer sessions in each of Iowa’s 99 counties, it wasn’t enough to gain support among caucusgoers looking for candidates who weren't part of the perceived establishment.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2016/02/01/mike-huckabee-republican-presidential-campaign/79651090/ |
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