In Topeka, Mike Huckabee was asked to work reporters through the math and statistics on how he could win the Republican Party’s nomination.
“I was never that good in math. I’m more into miracles than math,” Huckabee answered. He added: “Miracles, I understand. Math is a little harder.”
The GOP hopeful has challenged a list of assumptions that factored into John McCain’s status as the eventual and inevitable nominee of the Republican Party. Huckabee explained by saying: “People have said well, you gotta have anywhere from 70 to 80 percent of all the rest of the delegates. That’s assuming no other delegates leave the people they’ve supported so far, let’s say the Romney delegates. It also presumes that, at the convention, people don’t change their mind. There are a lot of presumptions.
Huckabee said it was a lot of presumptions. He would continue by saying: “It presumes John McCain continues to have a campaign that doesn’t have a flaw. But as we all know, a candidate can say one word, do one thing, have one particular moment that can end his whole career so, you know, I’m not saying I’m just driving behind him at the NASCAR race waiting for him to lose a tire. But crazier things have happened. So, the crazy thing for me would to be pull off in the pit crew, get out of the car and go take a shower and say, it’s over. And then him lose a tire and I’ve lost the race, not because I couldn’t win but because I wouldn’t stay in the game and finish.”