Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas, will announce Saturday whether he will run for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination. "Gov. Huckabee will announce tomorrow night on his program whether or not he intends to explore a presidential bid," said Woody Fraser, executive producer of Huckabee's weekly show on Fox News Channel. "He has not told anyone at Fox News Channel his decision," Fraser said. The show airs at 8 p.m. EDT. Huckabee, who polls show would likely be a strong contender if he runs, also mounted a bid in 2008.

WASHINGTON -- A few developments over the weekend muddied the waters of the Republican vice presidential search, particularly in regards to the chances of Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida. Beginning on Friday, as he sat down with CNN en Espanol's Ismael Cala, the tea party favorite denied that he would be riding shotgun on the Republican ticket. "I'm not going to be the vice president. I'm not," he said, the second such announcement this month. "Marco has said repeatedly that he's not going to be vice president, and all of the speculation in the world isn't going to change that fact,” senior Rubio advisor Todd Harris added.

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If Rick Santorum won't let the fat lady sing, it looks like Republicans are willing to pick up the chorus. A new Pew Research Center poll finds that 74% of Republicans believe that Mitt Romney will “definitely be” the GOP's presidential nominee. Just 21% see anyone other than Romney with a chance, yet another bad sign for Santorum. As for the notion that the ongoing primary is helping the GOP, Republicans are increasingly siding against it. Over the past three months, the share of Republican thinking the lack of a single presidential candidate is a good thing has fallen from 55% in February to 36% in April, while those thinking it's a bad thing have increased from 36% to 47%. The results mirror those of a poll Pew conducted during the 2008 Democratic primary, which dragged on between then-Sen.

Mike Huckabee is siding with Michelle Obama over Glenn Beck after the conservative talk show host jabbed him for his "bigger government tendencies. " On his HuckPAC web site Thursday , the former Arkansas governor defends his support for the first lady's "Let's Move!" anti-obesity initiative, which he says is about personal responsibility and "not the government literally taking candy from a baby's mouth. " "I'm no fan of her husband's policies for sure, but I have appreciated her efforts that Beck misrepresented -- either out of ignorance or out of a deliberate attempt to distort them to create yet another 'boogey man' hiding in the closet that he and only he can see," Huckabee writes.

In the wake of the controversy facing conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh, with the calls for his advertisers to depart his program, for radio stations to pull his show and for conservatives to distance themselves from his rhetoric,  Mike Huckabee -- the former Arkansas governor and onetime presidential candidate -- is throwing his hat into the ring Monday and directly facing Limbaugh on the airwaves. Huckabee's three-hour show will debut on nearly 200 stations, lining up alongside Limbaugh on the 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. time slot from Monday to Friday.

According to many pundits, the four police officers shot to death Sunday in Parkland, Wash., aren't the only victims of alleged killer Maurice Clemmons. Also wounded in the attack, perhaps fatally, was Mike Huckabee's political career. Huckabee, a presidential candidate last year who was considered a front-runner for the Republican nomination in 2012, is one of the reasons Clemmons was on the street Sunday. While governor of Arkansas in 2000, Huckabee commuted Clemmons' 108-year sentence.

Usually, potential presidential aspirants seek cash before waging a campaign. Mike Huckabee wants your prayers. To that end, a new website has been launched seeking divine inspiration for the former Arkansas governor, called www.prayforhuckabee.com . "As many of you know, I am prayerfully considering an important decision about seeking the office of president in the 2012 election. I am asking for God's guidance now, and I humbly ask that you would join me in prayer as I seek to discern His will for my life," Huckabee writes on the page.

Potential Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee gave an impassioned defense Wednesday of his decision to commute the sentence of an Arkansas man who, years later, murdered four police officers in a Seattle-area coffee shop. The 2009 shooting has been described as a potentially disqualifying vulnerability for Huckabee, who told a group of reporters that he is “seriously contemplating” another presidential run. In 2008, the former Arkansas governor finished second to eventual nominee John McCain in the competition for national convention delegates.

If Mike Huckabee does decide to jump into the 2012 presidential race, it may not come any time soon. The former Arkansas governor made a case Monday for waiting as long as possible before getting in, saying that there was little advantage to building a large campaign structure a year and a half before the election. "Candidates have to make decisions based on what's good for their campaign and their message," Huckabee told reporters. "The process is already, in my mind, too long.

In the wake of the controversy facing conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh, with the calls for his advertisers to depart his program, for radio stations to pull his show and for conservatives to distance themselves from his rhetoric,  Mike Huckabee -- the former Arkansas governor and onetime presidential candidate -- is throwing his hat into the ring Monday and directly facing Limbaugh on the airwaves. Huckabee's three-hour show will debut on nearly 200 stations, lining up alongside Limbaugh on the 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. time slot from Monday to Friday.

Republicans in this red state will decide Saturday whether to hand Rick Santorum another presidential campaign victory and bolster his argument that he is the most viable conservative alternative to front-runner Mitt Romney, not Newt Gingrich.   The former Pennsylvania senator dropped into Topeka and Wichita on Friday, his second trip to Kansas since he won three states on Super Tuesday. "We need Kansas," he told about 250 supporters at a rally at the Great Overland Station, a historic 1927 railroad depot in Topeka.

Hoping to improve on his third-place finish in the Kansas caucuses in 2008, Ron Paul was scheduled to make three campaign stops on Friday and planned to visit four caucuses on Saturday to deliver five-minute synopses of his libertarian agenda. Citing the nation's wars, its struggling economy and its failing educational system, Paul told more than 400 sign-toting supporters in the state capital: "These problems could be solved by just following the Constitution, and that is what we really need.

Mitt Romney has won a narrow victory over Rick Santorum in the marquee Super Tuesday battle of Ohio, according to a projection by the Associated Press. Ohio's primary proved to be the tightest battle of the 2012 Republican nomination fight since the very first vote in Iowa on Jan. 3. Then, Romney was initially declared the winner by just eight votes. A revised tally weeks later put Santorum ahead by a few dozen votes. It was a battle on Super Tuesday, and both men claimed their share of successes, though Romney was poised to score a decisive advantage in the fight for delegates.

Newt Gingrich has won the Republican presidential primary in Georgia, according to the Associated Press. Georgia was a must-win state for Gingrich, who crafted a Southern state strategy in his long-shot effort to win the Republican presidential nomination. That strategy hinges on a win in Georgia, the state he represented for 20 years as a member of Congress. The primary was called based on exit polls, as precinct results had just started to come in. Seventy-six delegates are at stake in the Georgia primary, and Gingrich is unlikely to win all of them.

Mitt Romney won the Vermont primary, the Associated Press projected, easily beating Rick Santorum and Ron Paul in a New England state that borders Massachusetts, where Romney served as governor. It's Romney's second prize of Super Tuesday, after Virginia was also called in his favor. Vermont was called based on exit polls, which projected a double-digit margin for Romney. Paul and Santorum were closely matched for second place. Based on early returns, Romney, Paul and Santorum stood to collect delegates in Vermont.

Onetime Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee has a new gig: He's the latest political analyst to join Fox News. The cable news network officially named the former Arkansas governor as a contributor to its election coverage on Thursday. --Matea Gold

Political advisors and close associates of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee remained in the dark Friday about what he will say Saturday night when he announces his decision about whether to pursue another White House bid – an indication he has decided not to jump in the 2012 race, they said. "My assumption is that obviously making this kind of decision without telling us sort of indicates he’s not going to run," said veteran Republican strategist Ed Rollins, who served as Huckabee’s campaign chairman in his 2008 race and has been informally advising him for the last several months.