While most of the Republican presidential hopefuls are trying to compete with each other for the immigration plan that will MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN, Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz are hitching their campaign wagons to the so-called plight of so-called martyr Kim Davis. The Kentucky county clerk has become a headline superstar over the last few weeks because of her refusal to issue any marriage licenses in the wake of the Supreme Court legalizing gay marriage nationwide. Davis certainly isn’t the only such elected official to oppose the highest law in the land while citing her religious beliefs as the reason she refuses to do her job — there’s even a judge in Tennessee refusing to grant divorces because of gay marriage — but her personal life choices and four marriages have made her a poor spokesperson for the “sanctity of marriage,” and people simply love pointing and laughing.
However, to Huckabee, Cruz, and the protesters supporting her, Davis is being “persecuted” because of her religious beliefs, and that kind of hilariously incorrect spin on why she has actually been in jail is enough to fire up some much-needed campaign trail support for two guys who are just choking on Donald Trump’s dust at this point. Of course, before the two candidates could even start their separate events on Tuesday, Davis was given her walking papers. It’s only a matter of time before Huckabee and Cruz begin arguing about who gets to take credit for this “victory.”
For more, anchors Tom Storey and Briana Lane break down where the GOP candidates stand on Davis on today’s episode of The Desk.