page_title: Mike Huckabee 2016 presidential campaign
section_title: Campaign
hierarchical_section_title: Mike Huckabee 2016 presidential campaign / Campaign
caption_attribution_description: English: Mike Huckabee speaking at the Iowa GOP's Growth and Opportunity Party in Des Moines, Iowa on October 31, 2015.
context_page_description: The 2016 presidential campaign of Mike Huckabee, the 44th Governor of Arkansas, began on May 5, 2015 at an event in his hometown of Hope, Arkansas. Huckabee's candidacy for the Republican nomination in the 2016 Presidential election was his second, after having previously run in 2008. Following a disappointing showing in the Iowa caucuses, Huckabee ended his run on February 1, 2016.
context_section_description: On May 5, 2015, Huckabee officially declared his candidacy at a rally in his hometown of Hope, Arkansas.
  On November 8, 2015, Huckabee participated at the National Religious Liberties Conference alongside Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz, and said that "our religious liberties are under assault". Conservative radio host Kevin Swanson, who hosted the conference, advocated for the execution of homosexuals in his speech. Two other speakers at the conference, Reverend Phillip Kayser and Joel McDurmon, have also spoken of the death penalty for homosexual acts.
  In the 2016 Iowa Republican caucuses, Huckabee finished in ninth place with 3,345 votes, or 1.8% of the votes cast. He subsequently withdrew from the campaign.
caption: Huckabee speaking at an event hosted by the Iowa Republican Party in October 2015.
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