Huckabee ‘delighted’ about Iowa poll

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Sunday downplayed an Iowa poll showing him with only 10 percent support among Hawkeye State Republicans.

“It’s a little early to take too much into it,” Huckabee, who won in Iowa in 2008, said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” He added, however, that he is “delighted to be where I am.”

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) leads that poll with 15 percent, with Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) receiving 14 percent and 2012 Republican Party nominee and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) securing 13 percent. Romney announced on Friday he was not running.

Huckabee was fourth with 10 percent support, former neurosurgeon Ben Carson got 9 percent, and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) got 8 percent.

Huckabee said Walker has “done a great job,” and that “he’s an incredibly important contender for our party…but look at the stable.”

He also said he welcomed Romney’s exit from the field, but it’s only “one down, several more to go.”

Huckabee said he would talk very positively about what he wants to do for America, instead of about other candidates.