Huckabee's Running: Vows Support for Israel, Help for Middle Class

The other man from Hope is running for president again.

Declaring Tuesday that he can bring "the kind of change that truly can get America from hope to higher ground," former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee declared his Republican candidacy in the hometown he shares with former President Bill Clinton.

Roots in Hope are about all he shares with the Democrat, and in his nascent campaign, he's pitching himself as the best Republican to take on Bill's wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, the dominant Democrat in the 2016 race.

"It would be perfectly fitting that I would announce here that I am a candidate for president