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USA TODAY’s Washington Bureau Chief Susan Page explains four reasons why Mike Huckabee’s presidential run matters.
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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks during the Iowa Faith & Freedom Coalition 2015 Spring Kickoff on April 25 in Waukee. In an Iowa Poll of likely GOP caucusgoers earlier this year, Huckabee received the highest favorability rating: 66%.(Photo: Scott Olson, Getty Images)
DES MOINES, Iowa — Mike Huckabee made it official Tuesday: He’s running for president again.
If he wants to win Iowa again, however, GOP activists said Huckabee will have to adapt to higher expectations than he faced as a relative unknown ahead of his 2008 Iowa caucuses victory. He will also have to outlast a crowded field of candidates looking for a chunk of the conservative bloc that carried him to victory in 2008.