Mike Huckabee declined to answer questions about Donald Trump Sunday, noting the Republican presidential front-runner is already receiving enough media coverage.
“You don’t worry about Donald Trump. He’s a force to be reckoned with, but you don’t reckon with him by dealing with it,” the former Arkansas governor said on “Fox News Sunday.”
“I just quit answering Donald Trump questions,” Huckabee added. ” He’s getting 10 times the amount of coverage that any other candidate is getting, and the dumbest thing a candidate can do right now is to give him more coverage by answering all the Trump questions.”
Huckabee said his present campaign strategy focuses on simply “staying in the race.”
“A lot of people think that the polls at this point matter. They only matter in getting you in the stage,” Huckabee said, referring to criteria for the televised GOP debates that caps the number of participants based on the latest poll numbers.
“What really matters right now is building organizational structure in the early states,” he added.
Huckabee won the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses in 2008 and has expressed confidence that he can replicate that result in the 2016 contest.
The former Fox News host also blasted President Obama’s nuclear agreement with Iran and encouraged members of Congress to oppose the deal.
“It’s like letting a 10th grader grade his own algebra exams, or letting Hillary Clinton take care of her own server,” Huckabee said. “Both are nonsense and this deal is nonsense.”
