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AP Photo Huckabee: Trump is Clinton's 'worst nightmare'

Hillary Clinton and her allies are underestimating Donald Trump at their own peril, according to Mike Huckabee.

The former Arkansas governor was asked about a POLITICO interview with Hillary Clinton's top strategist and pollster Joel Benenson, who argued that Trump couldn’t win a general election match-up against the former secretary of state.

“I’m not sure what they’re smoking over there in the Clinton camp,” Huckabee said. “Everybody said Donald Trump wouldn’t come, they said he couldn’t get past August or the early controversies, I’m sitting as a candidate, ‘Well you know what, he won’t last long’ — well, he’s outlasted all of us and I think they’re gonna underestimate Donald Trump’s candidacy at their own peril.”

Huckabee — who ran for the Republican nomination before dropping out after a dismal showing in the Iowa caucuses — said that Trump is actually the Clinton campaign’s “worst nightmare” because he will take away traditional Democratic voters.

Huckabee has not endorsed a candidate but his daughter and former campaign manager Sarah Huckabee Sanders works for the Trump campaign.