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From NBC’s Domenico Montanaro


The Club for Growth is no fan of Huckabee. The conservative group’s latest attack on the former Arkansas governor comes in the form of an anti-Huckabee Web site, TaxHikeMike. The site contains videos of Huckabee statements, which the group claims as “Evidence.” It also says he’s “getting cozy with labor unions” and cites speaking at the National Education Association and receiving the endorsement of the International Association of Machinists.



“He even received the latter’s endorsement!” the site exclaims. The machinists union also endorsed Clinton, but it said it endorsed Huckabee because he “was the only Republican candidate with the guts to meet with our members and the only one willing to figure out where and how we might work together.”



The Club for Growth’s President Pat Toomey said in a statement: “Mike Huckabee claims to be an economic conservative, but it is clear from his tax-and-spend record as governor of Arkansas and his embrace of left-wing populism on the campaign trail that he is as much an economic conservative as Hillary Clinton is a capitalist.”

The Club for Growth also ran an attack ad in Iowa against Huckabee in the week leading up to the Ames straw poll. Huckabee, who calls the group “The Club for Greed,” seemed to shrug off the group’s attacks with his second-place finish at the straw poll despite his limited resources.