Mike Huckabee

They were once battled for the Republican presidential nomination. Now John McCain and former rival Mike Huckabee team up on the campaign trail for the first time.

Two weeks after the next president is elected, Mike Huckabee will publish a book sharing details on his failed bid for the White House and offering his vision for remodeling the conservative movement.

Mike Huckabee loses the Republican primary in South Carolina, falling short in a state that was crucial to his presidential aspirations but promising the race was "far, far from over."

Many of the things that draw young and working-class evangelicals to former preacher Mike Huckabee -- like his economic populism and foreign policy critiques -- are the same things that alienate the Christian movement's top leaders, who so far have refused to support his bid for the Republican presidential nomination.
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