Mike Huckabee Tracker

WASHINGTON  –  Mike Huckabee is dropping out of the presidential race.

The former Arkansas governor is withdrawing after John McCain clinched the nomination by getting 1,191 delegates.

Huckabee was the Arizona senator’s chief remaining rival.

DES MOINES, Aug. 12 — “I can’t buy you — I don’t have the money,” Mike Huckabee, the Arkansas Republican seeking the presidency, told Republicans at the Iowa Straw Poll this weekend. He offered a mock frown.

“I can’t even rent you,” he said.

The crowd, which had been rustling, burst into warm laughter at a pointed joke intended to remind them of Mr. Huckabee’s earnest underdog campaign. Five hours later, the voters rewarded him with 2,587 votes and a second-place finish in the poll — surprising, it would seem, even Mr. Huckabee.

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