Story highlights The former Utah governor and U.S. ambassador to China said Trump is looking more likely as the Republican on the ballot in November

Huntsman also discussed Clinton's bid for the Democratic nomination

Chicago (CNN) Former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman said Monday that he would be inclined to support Donald Trump if the controversial real estate mogul secures the GOP nomination.

"If he's the nominee, I'm a Republican and I tend to gravitate towards whomever the nominee is," Huntsman, who lost the 2012 Republican presidential primary to Mitt Romney, told CNN senior political commentator David Axelrod on Axelrod's podcast "The Axe Files."

Huntsman said Trump is looking more likely as the Republican on the ballot in November. "I just happen to think that this go-round we have a very unusual possibility if he makes it that far. And I think the chances are better than 50-50 that he makes it to the finish line in terms of the nomination."

Huntsman said there are aspects of Trump's platform he finds attractive.

"He's strong on things like campaign finance reform and I think it's going to take an extraordinarily unique leader to stand up and say that the way that we're doing this on the campaign finance side is broken and we need to fix it," Huntsman said, adding Trump is "right about bringing aboard a new generation of the best and the brightest and wiping out the old Washington establishment and the old Washington culture."

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