Mike Huckabee wants the media attention that Donald Trump commands.
The former Arkansas governor and Republican presidential hopeful said Sunday that Trump’s success in the primary polls was due to the attention he gets from the media.
Trump, a billionaire businessman and former reality TV star, is winning because he gets 10 times the coverage of other candidates, Huckabee said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
“You give me 10 times the coverage that any other candidate gets, and I’ll be leading,” Huckabee said.
Huckabee, who is polling in the middle of the Republican pack, added that Trump is “alone in his class of being able to get attention.”
Dana Bash, the CNN host, had asked Huckabee if he was worried about the “Kardashianization of the caucuses,” a reference to the ubiquitous of the reality TV family the Kardashians.
Huckabee, favored among social conservatives and a former winner of the Iowa caucuses, acknowledged that Trump “is a phenomenon.”
But he said that he would win through organization in the state in the long run.
“This is like a NASCAR race: there’s 200 laps,” he said. “We’re maybe in lap number 10.”
