With Mike Huckabee expected to announce his presidential candidacy next week, the former Arkansas governor has gone on the attack in his "official announcement" video against the Clintons' political machine.
Aimed at informing voters about his record in helping Americans, the video targets Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton and former President Bill Clinton, also the ex-governor of Arkansas.
"On his first day in office, Governor Huckabee's door was nailed shut. It was in Bill Clinton's Arkansas" says Rex Nelson, a former Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reporter, at the start of the video released on Friday.
Nelson then says that "all the apparatus of the Democratic Party" were "aligned against" Huckabee, but "all of a sudden this Republican comes out of nowhere and wins."
According to
CNN, Huckabee has used his "’nailed-shut" story before to show his strength in the face of adversity. However, he had previously said his door was nailed down on his first day as lieutenant governor when he was serving under Democratic Gov. Jim Tucker after Clinton left office.
Without mentioning that he is likely to run for the White House, Huckabee says that he's proved he can fight to the finish, putting it all on the line for his constituents in Arkansas, while implying he will do the same for the rest of America.
"Every day of my life in politics was a fight and sometimes it was an intense one," he says. "But any drunken redneck can walk into a bar and start a fight. A leader only starts a fight that he's prepared to finish."
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Huckabee also appears to lay out his presidential campaign manifesto by declaring that government "power needs to be local and limited, because the closer government is to the people, the more accountable it is to the people who are being governed."
CNN said that the conservative pastor showed in the video that he was unlikely to raise the minimum wage. Instead he says, "I'm going to focus on solutions to help every American earn his or her maximum wage."
As for the threat of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, as well as other world crises, Huckabee maintains that he will "lead with moral clarity in a dangerous world."
And while suggesting he would be a tough commander in chief, he adds, "I'll keep all the options on the table in order to defeat the evil forces of radical Islam."
In a
Loras College poll this week in Iowa, Huckabee came in fourth place among likely GOP caucus-goers out of a crowded field of potential candidates.
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