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ANAHEIM, California — Former Arkansas Governor and Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee expanded upon his platform’s emphasis on building America’s economy and strengthening its military, during Friday’s annual California GOP Convention.

After 2016 presidential candidate Scott Walker backed out of a scheduled speech at this weekend’s California Republican Party (CRP) Convention in Anaheim, California, former Ambassador John Bolton stepped in to fill the gap.

Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who went to jail for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses because of her religious beliefs, returned to work Monday. GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee – who held a rally for Davis – said he continues to support her for “staying true to her convictions.”

GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is expanding beyond his religious liberty message as his campaign lays out Huckabee’s battle plans for the 2016 race. “High favorability is good, but you also have to do something with that and get your message out there. It’s one of the second big components that not only have we put a lot of focus on, but know – it’s something we know works because we won in Iowa before – is a very deep and strong ground game and strong organization,” his campaign manager explains.

GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee is celebrating the release of Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who walked out of jail with him Tuesday afternoon. Davis was locked up for refusing to issue same-sex marriage licenses against her religious beliefs.

GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee escorted Kentucky Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis from jail after she was released Tuesday, before Huckabee’s rally that had been scheduled to support Davis and protest her imprisonment.

The judge who ordered Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis jailed because she refuses to issue same-sex marriage licenses is now ordering her release.

GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee may be getting a boost in Iowa – especially from the evangelical vote – as a well known and respected pastor has endorsed Huckabee for president.

GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee is doing quite well according to two national polls conducted after the first GOP presidential primary debate. One poll has Huckabee in second place behind GOP frontrunner Donald Trump and another poll has Huckabee listed with the highest favorability rating among 15 GOP presidential candidates; however, former neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson takes the highest net favorability rating when comparing the results in totality.

As White House spokesperson Josh Earnest is blaming China and Chinese policies for the on-going market crash and selloff, GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee says strong economic policies aren’t built by empowering Washington, D.C. and Wall Street elites.

GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee met with Israel’s Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu in Jerusalem.

New Jersey Governor Chris Christie cautioned fellow Republicans from being overly hyperbolic in reaction to President Obama’s proposed deal with Iran, explaining that they were only giving the president an “escape hatch” from talking about his failure to get a good deal.

GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee is responding to Breitbart News’ Joel Pollak’s recent report about President Obama using anti-Jewish language in order to boast his Iran deal.

The Washington Post’s editorial board chose a bizarre headline for a front-page story Wednesday: “Lagging in Polls, Huckabee Takes a Leap of Faith” – as GOP candidate Mike Huckabee is in the top five of the newspaper’s most recent poll.

Huckabee’s Senior Communications Director Hogan Gidley exclusively told Breitbart News there has been almost a 100 percent increase in his campaign website traffic on Monday as compared to the previous Monday, prior to Huckabee’s criticism and remarks on the Iran deal.

Mika Brzezinski, co-host of MSNBC’s “Morning Joe,” questioned and attacked the Christian faith of Mike Huckabee Tuesday over comments the Republican presidential candidate made about President Obama’s Iran deal. “I really like Mike Huckabee,” the brittle Brzezinski complained. “He’s been

GOP presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee responded to Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton’s previous attack over Huckabee’s characterization of President Obama’s Iran deal.

Governor Huckabee didn’t pull any punches when talking about Obama’s Iran nuclear deal: “This president’s foreign policy is the most feckless in American history. It is so naive that he would trust the Iranians. By doing so, he will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven. This is the most idiotic thing, this Iran deal. It should be rejected by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and by the American people. I read the whole deal. We gave away the whole store. It’s got to be stopped.”

The poll also measured which candidates are the most well-known. Donald Trump, according to the results, is the best-known candidate with 92%. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush comes in second under that factor.
The poll was conducted from July 8th to July 21st and surveyed roughly 1,028 Republicans and right leaning Independents. It examined the candidates well-known factor with the favorability of the candidate.

GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee released a new online ad titled “Sin Not Skin,making its first debut with Breitbart News.

“I hear people say we’ve got racial problems. We don’t have a skin problem in this country, we have a sin problem in this country,” said Huckabee, who appealed to the mostly African American audience. As a GOP presidential candidate, Huckabee is working to broaden his appeal to black voters.

AMES, Iowa: GOP presidential candidates Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR), Gov. Bobby Jindal (R-LA), Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) brought the crowd to their feet several times while speaking at the Family Leadership Summit in Ames, Iowa Saturday.

Republican presidential candidates are all weighing in after the revelation from undercover video that captured a Planned Parenthood official discussing the money acquired from the sale of aborted baby body parts.

GOP presidential candidate former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-AR) has roughly eight million dollars raised since launching his campaign about two months ago, on May 5th.

GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee released a new campaign video that highlights the threat of a nuclear Iran. It encourages Americans to sign Huckabee’s open letter to Secretary John Kerry.

Huckabee says the country must address the growing problem of illegal immigration.

Chairman of the Benghazi Committee Trey Gowdy (R-SC) spoke to reporters about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s controversial comments on immigration as a 2016 issue.

South Carolina – GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee rolled up his sleeves and served voters as he mingled at a Chick-fil-A in Anderson, South Carolina.

“I would say that it was a little interesting when the Huffington Post ran the story. They could clearly see it was Mitt Romney in a video clip that Jake Tapper asked me to respond to, so then the Huffington Post runs an article saying I had said what was clearly Mitt Romney’s comment,” Huckabee explained to Breitbart News.

GOP presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee is using Facebook to poke fun at the Washington Post “Fact Checker,” giving it the coveted “Four Pinocchios.”

GOP presidential candidate and businessman Donald Trump is warning the Senate against passing Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) on Tuesday.

Meadows decided to vote against House leadership on the Rule vote, prior to the final vote on Trade Promotion Authority – which grant’s President Obama fast track trade authority – because he felt the legislation was riddled with holes. Huckabee said: “I salute Congressman Mark Meadows for his backbone, courage and commitment to North Carolina workers.”

“I think there is an obvious question here – if this trade bill is going to create so many jobs and be so good for American workers, why are we setting aside billions of dollars to protect people that are going to lose all of these jobs that we’re supposed to create? I have not heard anyone address that,” Huckabee says.

President Obama can’t be trusted to negotiate a condo in Cleveland or a couch off Craigslist, let alone a trillion dollar trade deal that could impact millions of workers. But many Republicans in Washington think we can trust him to negotiate a new trade deal with Asia. Haven’t we learned our lesson?

At a weekend event in the first-in-the-nation caucus state of Iowa, Dr. Ben Carson seemed to draw the biggest crowd of reporters and supporters. When asked what he plans to do to continue to rise in the polls, Carson told Breitbart News, “Be myself and if people like that, I’ll rise – and if they don’t I’ll fall.”

WASHINGTON D.C. June 8, 2015 – The Breitbart News Network announced last night on Sirius XM’s Breitbart News Sunday program the launch of its monthly Breitbart Primary 2016 Online Straw Poll.