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Huckabee also defended his breaks from conservative orthodoxy on Common Core education standards, immigration and cap and trade. He said he would support a bill to give in-state benefits to undocumented immigrants again, as he did in 2006 as governor of Arkansas.

Huck supports expanding federal power with Common Core, opposes the rule of law on immigration, and supports higher taxes with cap and trade. Why would Huckabee run as a republican when he fits right in as a democrat?

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Exactly, no republican wants any of that. And conservatives want to roll back the fed power even farther.