Huckabee Says He Isn’t Being Vetted

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said the John McCain campaign has not reached out to him or made any effort to vet him as a potential running mate.

Huckabee told an Iowa audience that the McCain campaign has not requested any personal background information from him, but added, “most everything that somebody would want or need to know is in some public record somewhere.”

“I don’t expect to be asked. I really don’t,” Huckabee said. “I mean, it’s pretty obvious if you look at what I’m doing — you know I’m not sitting around waiting on the phone to ring. Right now it would really mess up a whole lot of things I have going.”

“I’m clearly not living with any expectation that this is going to happen for me.”