Race for '08: Mike Huckabee

Cindy McCain, Huckabee to travel to Rwanda

AP - Thu Jul 10, 4:33 PM ET

WASHINGTON - Cindy McCain and Mike Huckabee are among a bipartisan group headed to Rwanda next week to see how U.S. investments have helped some of the world's poorest people and what steps the next president can take to fight global poverty.

  • Republican presidential candidate Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., holds a single rose a walks in front of the image of the Virgin Mary in the background during his visit to the Basilica de Guadalupe in Mexico City, Thursday, July 3, 2008. (AP Photo/LM Otero)
    Today on the presidential campaign trail AP - Thu Jul 3, 1:46 PM ET

    Kind of blue — Obama hopes to flip Republican red states ... McCain to meet Mexican president on Thursday at end of Latin American trip ... Obama, McCain competing for the center, an elusive, disengaged yet crucial crowd

  • US Republican presidential hopeful John McCain points at a journalist during a press conference in Cartagena, department of Bolivar, 1090 kms north of Bogota, Colombia. McCain's campaign Wednesday raised the stakes ahead of Democratic White House rival Barack Obama's expected trip to Iraq, demanding changes to his plan for immediate troop cuts.(AFP/Mauricio Duenas)
    Conservative evangelicals discuss backing McCain AP - Wed Jul 2, 9:05 PM ET

    Conservative evangelical leaders met privately this week to discuss putting aside their misgivings about John McCain and coalescing around the Republican's presidential bid while urging him to consider social conservative favorite Mike Huckabee as a running mate.