--- title: Mike Huckabee Super PAC Tries to Regain Hold on Iowa in Ad description: The super PAC supporting former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is launching a new ad campaign in Iowa this week. canonical: https://time.com/4164738/mike-huckabee-super-pac-ad-iowa/ author: Zeke Miller article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-12-31T00:41:44.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T13:42:21.213Z article:section: Politics og:title: Huckabee Super PAC Tries to Regain Hold on Iowa Evangelicals og:description: With new ad. og:url: https://time.com/4164738/mike-huckabee-super-pac-ad-iowa/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt078126b9e22d3b71/69887739a988ca916b6b5ebb/mike-huckabee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee speaks during the CNN Republican presidential debate on December 15, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Huckabee Super PAC Tries to Regain Hold on Iowa Evangelicals twitter:description: With new ad. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt078126b9e22d3b71/69887739a988ca916b6b5ebb/mike-huckabee.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Huckabee Super PAC Tries to Regain Hold on Iowa Evangelicals in New Ad by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Dec 31, 2015 12:41 AM UTC  Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee speaks during the CNN Republican presidential debate on December 15, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee speaks during the CNN Republican presidential debate on December 15, 2015 in Las Vegas, Nevada.Justin Sullivan—Getty Images by [Zeke Miller](https://time.com/author/zeke-j-miller/) ## Zeke Miller Dec 31, 2015 12:41 AM UTC The super PAC supporting former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is launching a new ad campaign in Iowa this week, hoping to help the struggling 2008 Iowa caucus victor regain his support among the state’s evangelical Christian voters. The ad, titled “Moral Clarity,” highlights Huckabee’s opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage, and his commitment to prayer. The group, Pursuing America’s Greatness, is backing the over $500,000 buy, including airing the spot during college football bowl games such as the Iowa Hawkeyes’ appearance in the Rose Bowl. While still popular among religious voters in the state, Huckabee has struggled to rekindle the magic that propelled him to victory eight years ago. Instead, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz has consolidated the evangelical vote, and is the insider favorite to place first in the caucuses. The ad hopes to contrast Huckabee’s bona fides with Cruz’s comments to donors that same-sex marriage was not in his top-three most important issues. “Mike Huckabee’s courageous, uncompromising commitment to preserve life and marriage are founded not on political opportunism, but on his abiding faith in God,” Nick Ryan, the president of Pursuing America’s Greatness, said in a statement. “These strategic ad buys will bring home to Iowa’s evangelicals, in a positive but unmistakable way, that Governor Huckabee is the true social conservative candidate they are looking for to carry their banner.” **Read Next:** [_Why Mike Huckabee Picked a Fight With Frito-Lay Over Gay Doritos_](http://time.com/4060701/mike-huckabee-gay-lesbian-doritos-dan-savage/) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4164738/mike-huckabee-super-pac-ad-iowa/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4164738/mike-huckabee-super-pac-ad-iowa/"},"headline":"Huckabee Super PAC Tries to Regain Hold on Iowa Evangelicals in New Ad","datePublished":"2015-12-31T00:41:44.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T13:42:21.213Z","description":"The super PAC supporting former Arkansas Gov. 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