Mike Huckabee

Hope, Arkansas: Instead, he billed himself as the hometown boy from Hope, according to CNN. Mike Huckabee is currently 2% to win the GOP Nomination. EDT on CNN. Hope, Arkansas Mike Huckabee launched his second presidential bid here Tuesday, casting himself as a guy with small town roots who can relate to the economic and security concerns of average American families. "I truly am from Hope to higher ground," Huckabee told a roaring crowd Tuesday in Hope, Arkansas. "So it seems perfectly fitting that it would be here that I announce that I am a candidate for president of the United States of America." Huckabee pitch didn't come from his multimillion-dollar beachfront home or the anchor desk where he spent years as a Fox News host. What do you think The setting just so happens to be the shared birthplace of Huckabee and former President Bill Clinton -- an ideal backdrop for Huckabee to draw a contrast with Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton. But first, Huckabee has to survive the Republican primary. "As my dad likes to say, we're at a great advantage because we've been through this before, and we're at a great disadvantage because we've been through this before," said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the candidate daughter and campaign manager. "He going to have a bigger target on his back." Folksy charm Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor and Southern Baptist minister, won over Iowa voters in 2008 with his folksy charm and expert grasp of retail politics. In fact, Huckabee is already framing himself as the only Republican contender who has taken on the "Clinton machine" and won. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.