Huckabee Ends His Presidential Campaign

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee abandoned his U.S. presidential bid on Tuesday after voting in fTexas, Ohio, Vermont and Rhode Island made it clear his rival, Arizona Sen. John McCain, would be the Republican candidate in the November election. McCain has been the party's presumptive candidate since his leading rivals dropped out of the race, leaving only Huckabee to challenge him. Huckabee told supporters:

We kept the faith. I’d rather lose an election than lose the principles that got me into politics in the first place. We started this effort with very little recognition and virtually no resources. We ended with slightly more recognition and very few resources. But what a journey. What a journey. A journey of a lifetime. It's now important that we turn our attention not to what could have been or what we wanted to have been but what now must be, and that is a united party.

Huckabee rarely raised a negative word during the campaign about McCain, a man he clearly likes, and he called him Tuesday night to congratulate him. Huckabee said he extended “my commitment to him and to the party to do everything possible to unite our party, but more importantly to unite our country.”

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