Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has endorsed Donald Trump, but refrained from saying he wanted to join the presumptive GOP nominee as his running mate.
“Do you want to be his vice president?” Fox News asked Huckabee.
“I don’t have any interest in anything unless he were to say he was interested,” Huckabee replied. “And I have no idea. He’s never said anything to me about it. Fact is, I’m moving on with my life.”
Huckabee continued to make an argument that he knew the Clintons better than anyone else on the GOP presidential debate stage in the previous year and would do everything he could to get Trump elected.
The former governor said he was “really disappointed and outraged” by people choosing to leave the Republican Party because of Trump. The author of God, Guns, Grits, and Gravy turned to a fast food analogy to help him drive his point home.
“This isn’t Burger King. This is an election. And you don’t get it all the time just like you want it,” Huckabee said.
Trump has conscripted retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson to help with the task of vetting potential vice presidents for the GOP ticket. In an interview that aired Thursday, Trump told CNBC there was a “40 percent chance” he selects someone who ran against him as his running mate.
