Former Governor Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., who ran for president in 2008, defended Herman Cain from a report that he faced sexual allegations in the late 1990s.
During an interview with Laura Ingraham, Huckabee said that the Politico story “disgusts” him and expressed his belief that another Republican campaign is behind the story. “I would almost guarantee that it did [come from another campaign],” Huckabee said of the story. “People who are in campaigns, typically — when they’ve got enough money to do it – they will hire investigators, opposition researchers; they will dig through everything.”
Huckabee also said that, “quite frankly, knowing some of the reporters involved — they’re not that good.”
“I have never sexually harassed anyone,” Cain said today on Fox News. “I was falsely accused,” he said, saying that the accusation “turned out, after the investigation, to be baseless.”
Huckabee, who won Iowa in 2008 based on his support among social conservatives and for his Fairtax plan, told Ingraham that “We all need to remember that an allegation is not a fact.”
