Mike Huckabee: ‘Trump may be a car wreck, but…’

Mike Huckabee put a new twist on the lesser-of-two-evils case for electing Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton, comparing both presidential candidates to car wrecks on Twitter Friday morning.

“Trump may be a car wreck, but at least his car is pointed in the right direction,” tweeted the former Arkansas governor and two-time Republican presidential candidate. “Hillary is a drunk-driver going the wrong way on the freeway.”

It seems clear that Huckabee meant to suggest that “a drunk-driver going the wrong way on the freeway” is more dangerous than a sober driver who has crashed while driving in the right direction.

But for many in the media, the biggest takeaway from Huckabee’s tweet was the fact that, just days before the election, a loyal Trump surrogate had referred to the Republican presidential nominee as a “car wreck.”

In the wake of such headlines, Huckabee took to Twitter to clarify that when he wrote “car wreck,” he meant something more along the lines of a fender bender and admonished the “low IQ media” for misinterpreting his muddled metaphor.