Mike Huckabee

===Trump administration===
Following the [[2016 United States presidential election|2016 U.S. presidential election]], Huckabee met with [[president-elect of the United States]] [[Donald Trump]], whom he had supported for the Republican nomination after ending his own campaign in February. It was reported by ''[[The Daily Mail]]'' and ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'' that Trump offered Huckabee the position of [[United States Ambassador to Israel]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.753975|title=Report: Trump Taps Mike Huckabee as Ambassador to Israel|first=Barak|last=Ravid|date=November 18, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161118232008/http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.753975|archive-date=18 November 2016|newspaper=Haaretz}}</ref> Huckabee denied the reports.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/306800-huckabee-denies-reports-he-was-tapped-as-ambassador/|title=Huckabee denies reports he was tapped as ambassador to Israel|first=Mark|last=Hensch|date=November 18, 2016}}</ref> He told Fox News that a possible cabinet appointment for himself was discussed but that he turned the offer down, saying, "I'm not sure it was the right fit."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.politico.com/blogs/donald-trump-administration/2016/11/mike-huckabee-trump-cabinet-position-231657|title=Huckabee says cabinet position discussed with Trump not 'the right fit'|website=[[Politico]]|date=November 18, 2016 }}</ref>

His daughter [[Sarah Huckabee Sanders]] served as [[White House press secretary]] to President [[Donald Trump]] from July 2017 until July 2019.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.businessinsider.com/sarah-huckabee-sanders-white-house-press-secretary-2017-7|title=Sarah Huckabee Sanders will replace Sean Spicer as White House press secretary|work=Business Insider|access-date=January 17, 2018|language=en}}</ref>

In January 2018, Huckabee praised [[Doha]], [[Qatar]] as being "surprisingly beautiful, modern, and hospitable" after a trip there, but did not reveal that a foreign agent for Qatar had paid $50,000 to a corporation run by Huckabee as a "honorarium for visit".<ref>{{cite web |last1=Friedman |first1=Dan |title=Mike Huckabee Praised Qatar Without Revealing He Was Paid $50,000 by Qatar |url=https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/06/mike-huckabee-praised-qatar-without-revealing-he-was-paid-50000-by-qatar/ |publisher=[[Mother Jones (magazine)|Mother Jones]] |access-date=June 24, 2018}}</ref>

Following Trump's defeat by [[Joe Biden]] in the [[2020 United States presidential election|2020 presidential election]], Huckabee supported [[Post-election lawsuits related to the 2020 U.S. presidential election|Trump's legal challenges in closely contested states]], stating, "I think he owes it to all of us to make sure the election was fair. I am not saying it wasn't, I don't know. But we need to know, we have to have an answer to the questions that linger."<ref name="twenty">{{Cite web|last=Nelson|first=Joshua|date=2020-11-09|title=Mike Huckabee: Trump team must be allowed to examine voting machines, ballots|url=https://www.foxnews.com/politics/huckabee-trump-legal-team-review-ballots-evidence|access-date=2020-11-13|website=Fox News|language=en-US}}</ref> On November 15, in a letter addressed to Joe Biden first posted on his website, Huckabee made unsubstantiated claims of election fraud in the 2020 election.<ref>{{Cite web|date=November 16, 2020|title=Did Mike Huckabee Write a 'Letter to Biden' About 'Voter Fraud'?|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/huckabee-letter-biden-fraud/|access-date=2021-04-19|website=[[Snopes]]|language=en-US}}</ref>