Mike Huckabee pounced on Bill Clinton’s mistaken pronouncement of his wife’s condition as the “flu” rather than the diagnosed case of pneumonia, suggesting that there is a “cover-up” about the Democratic nominee’s health similar to the concealment operation that doomed the presidency of Richard Nixon, Politico reports.

Said Huckabee: “The fact he called it the flu when the reality is her own doctor said it was pneumonia, does it matter? Here’s what matters. What matters is the cover-up. There is an old saying in politics, it’s not the crime that’ll do you in, it’s the cover-up. That’s what did in Nixon, and I think it’s what’s gonna do in Hillary Clinton.”

Mike Huckabee: “To pretend that Trump is being heavy-handed by saying that those who don’t endorse him won’t speak is not only unfair, it also misses the bigger story: Why aren’t we talking about the outright lie told by a number of my fellow GOP presidential contenders on national television during the very first debate in August of 2015?”

“We were asked point blank if we would support the eventual nominee who survived the primary process and won the nomination. And we all said ‘yes’ except for Trump, who declared that he wanted to make sure he was treated ‘fairly.’ Not long after, Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, went to Trump’s New York office and extracted from him a pledge that he would also support the nominee of the party.”

Mike Huckabee is paying $25,000 for playing “Eye of the Tiger” at a rally last year without the band’s permission, CNN reports.

“Does anybody think Donald Trump is a racist? I don’t. I mean, I really don’t. I don’t know of anything in his life that indicates that this man has racist tendencies.”

— Mike Huckabee, in an interview on Morning Joe.

Mike Huckabee said that evangelical groups won’t support his presidential campaign out of fear they would no longer be able to fundraise if Christian policies were actually put in place, BuzzFeed reports.

Said Huckabee: “A lot of these organizations wouldn’t have the ability to do urgent fundraising because if we slay the dragon, what dragon do they continue to fight? And so, for many of them, it could be a real detriment to their organization’s abilities to gin up their supporters and raise the contributions, and I know that sounds cynical but… it’s just, it is what it is.”

Mike Huckabee — who’s been a long-shot candidate relegated to the undercard primary debates — said if he doesn’t finish in the top three in Iowa, he’ll end his campaign, Politico reports.

Said Huckabee: “If we can’t come within striking distance of the victory or win it, then I think we recognize that it’s going to be hard to take that onto the other states.”

“Mike Huckabee’s presidential campaign, struggling with its low standing in the polls and underwhelming fundraising, slashed the salaries of senior staffers amid the departure of its top communications aide,” Politico reports.

Mike Huckabee “says that losing his top spokeswoman isn’t a sign of things to come, and he’s still all in on the 2016 campaign,” Politico reports.

Said Huckabee: “We hate to lose Alice, but she’s decided that — she’s I think, exhausted from the campaign. We’re moving forward … If people try to read more into it than is there, they’re going to be making a huge mistake.”