Huckabee predicts Trump's Cheney rhetoric won't 'make a lot of difference'

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) said he doesn’t think former President Trump’s comments about former Rep. Liz Chenye (R-Wyo.) will “make a lot of difference” for voters as they cast their ballots. 

The Republican nominee called Cheney a “radical war hawk” and questioned how she would react in a line of battle when “guns are trained on her face” on Thursday.

In response to those statements, Huckabee said, “It probably doesn't make a lot of difference.”

“I'm not sure how many undecided voters there are at this point. I mean, I have to ask, what are they undecided about,” Huckabee said Friday during a NewsNation appearance. 

“I mean, it's pretty clear who these candidates are, what they stand for. The difference, if you want four more years of Joe Biden, you vote for Kamala Harris,” he told anchor Connell McShane. “If you want to go back to the time when Donald Trump was leading a very robust economy and we had jobs and wage increases, you vote for him.”

The former president received widespread backlash for his criticism of Cheney while his opponent Vice President Harris said his violent remarks should be “disqualifying.”

Huckabee said Trump’s comments made a “legitimate point.”

“I think it was a legitimate point. Sometimes Donald Trump doesn't always say it in the most, let's just say, artful way, but there's clarity. And that was a clear statement,” he stated.

“And I don't think there was many misunderstanding from anyone except those who wanted to misunderstand it and didn't really want to hold Liz Cheney accountable for maybe her position that there's always a good war to go to,” Huckabee added.

The former president also sought to clarify his statements in a Truth Social post where he said that he meant Cheney “wouldn’t have the guts” to fight in a war. 

Throughout this campaign cycle, Cheney has been openly critical of Trump and his campaign with hopes of deterring voters from supporting the Republican nominee. 

She has even joined Harris on the campaign trail to bolster her ability to reach Republican voters. Currently, the vice president has a 0.3 percentage point lead over former President Trump nationally according to The Hill/Decision Desk HQ’s polling average. 

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