He isn’t the most well-funded campaign in the Republican presidential race, and according to the polls, he isn’t the most popular, either.
But, in Iowa, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is one of only two candidates to have completed a tour of all 99 counties. Following a stop Thursday in Sigourney in Keokuk County, he joined former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum among those candidates to have completed a “Full Grassley.”
Later that evening, he returned to his Iowa campaign headquarters in Urbandale to celebrate. His campaign issued the following statement:
“I’m excited to have completed the “Full Grassley”, having visited all 99 counties in Iowa, but I won’t stop until every last Iowan knows I’m running for president to burn down the corrupt Washington political machine and put Americans first.
“Americans want an honest, authentic president who doesn’t say one thing in Marshalltown, Iowa and then another thing in Manhattan. Our message is resonating and our momentum is building with four weeks left, and we are going to finish strong.”
Huckabee’s polling numbers had been moving upward in Iowa prior to the launch of his latest campaign swing through the state. He’s still polling in the low single digits, but as the 2008 Iowa Republican Caucus winner, he need look no farther back than 2012 to see another candidate who shocked America from a similar position less than a month out from the first-in-the-nation vote.
