On your mark, get set, speculate.
Former Arkansas Republican governor and Fox News host Mike Huckabee added to the 2016 talk Thursday, saying he’s mulling a presidential bid.
“I’m keeping the door open,” Huckabee told the New York Times. “I think right now the focus needs to be on 2014, but I’m mindful of the fact that there’s a real opportunity for me.”
He added that he would not run, though, without proper financial support. Huckabee’s first and only attempt to secure his party’s nomination failed in 2008, despite a momentous start in which he won the Iowa caucuses. After the campaign ended, Huckabee suggested he would seek higher office again in the future. He decided not to run in 2012.
Huckabee said Thursday after an event in Little Rock, Ark. that he received encouragement from influential evangelical leaders in Iowa and South Carolina who “certaintly want [him] to take another shot at it and they said that. They expressed that.”









