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Huckabee: My money’s on Trump

By Nick Gass

When it comes to Donald Trump's threat to go after Bill Clinton as the former president ramps up campaigning for his wife's bid, Mike Huckabee is all in on his Republican rival.

“Look, nothing’s backfired on Donald Trump yet. I’d put my money on him," the former governor of Arkansas told "Fox and Friends" in an interview Monday. "Frankly, he’s played the whole media game like a kid on Christmas morning with a toy drum. He’s beaten the heck out of them, and I honestly don't think that this is going to hurt Donald Trump … and I think the Clintons have some vulnerability here.”

Every time someone tries to attack the Manhattan mogul, Huckabee remarked, "it backfires on them." But asked whether the former president represented a "liability for Hillary Clinton," the former governor disagreed, noting that many Americans still view Bill Clinton favorably and that even some Republicans would prefer him over the current president.

"Frankly, after seven years with Obama, a lot of Republicans would take Bill Clinton back, warts and all, just because at least, he understood how to govern," Huckabee added.

For his part, Trump opened his work week of tweeting with another message spoiling for a fight.

Asked what he would need to do to move up in the polls before the Iowa caucus, Huckabee mentioned that he would need to get "all the media time" that Trump and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz are receiving.

"If that happens, things will certainly be better. And that’s part of the narrative that we’ve all faced is that the more media attention, that drives poll numbers, that drives stage position and that drives polling position as it comes to the electorate," said Huckabee, who won the 2008 caucus but is polling in the single digits now. “But the good news is, Iowa is a state where the voters, they don’t pay as much attention to polls, they don’t pay as much attention to the money, and frankly, there comes a point, and they’re probably there now, they quit paying attention to radio and television and mail pieces, ‘cause they get enough mail every day to give ‘em a hernia. They get so many media messages that every single hour is filled with probably 34 minutes of political commercials.”