Huckabee struggles to keep up with rivals’ fundraising

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (Ark.) brought in $2 million in donations for his presidential bid as he struggles to keep up with his main Republican presidential challengers.

Huckabee’s haul averages out to $35,000 a day. He’s currently in sixth place in the RealClearPolitics average of recent polling, and trails the three candidates ahead of him who have already filed their second-quarter haul — former Gov. Jeb Bush (Fla.), Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and former neurosurgeon Ben Carson — in both overall donations and average per day.

{mosads}The runner-up for the 2008 nomination is popular with evangelical Christians and is expected to be vying with Carson, Sen. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Gov. Bobby Jindal (La.) for their support. All of those candidates vastly outraised Huckabee both in top-line hauls and average per day.

At sixth place, he’s well within the margin needed to take the debate stage for Fox News’s first GOP debate in August.