• Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee waves to supporters with his grandson, Chanlder Huckabee, 3, in his arms after announcing his intentions to run for the Republican presidential nomination during an event at Hempstead Hall in his hometown of Hope, Arkansas, on Tuesday. | BLOOMBERG
    Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee waves to supporters with his grandson, Chanlder Huckabee, 3, in his arms after announcing his intentions to run for the Republican presidential nomination during an event at Hempstead Hall in his hometown of Hope, Arkansas, on Tuesday. | BLOOMBERG

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HOPE, ARKANSAS – Republican Mike Huckabee announced a run for his party’s 2016 presidential nomination on Tuesday with a fiery, populist speech aimed at energizing support from the Christian right and blue-collar Americans struggling to make ends meet.

The 59-year-old former Arkansas governor and former host of a popular Fox News television show is a long shot in the widening race to represent the Republican Party in the November 2016 election. Huckabee is the sixth Republican to make a formal bid.

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