Huckabee: Rivals might consider suicide [View All]

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Source: Associated Press

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee joked Tuesday that other candidates might be considering suicide because their level of support doesn't match their fundraising.

The former Arkansas governor, exaggerating, said other GOP presidential hopefuls were raising $100 for every nickel he had raised. "If I were some of these guys, I'd have to be sitting in a warm tub of water with razor blades," Huckabee said in an interview on MSNBC.

The ratio is closer to $10 for every $1 raised by Huckabee.

A national suicide-prevention group later criticized Huckabee.

"When a leading presidential candidate uses suicide and specifically means to do it as a joke, it is grossly irresponsible and is a disgrace," the National Hopeline Network, which runs the 1-800-SUICIDE help line, said in a statement.

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