Former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman says he will skip Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucus if he enters the 2012 presidential campaign.
“I’m not competing in Iowa for a reason,” said Huntsman, a former ambassador to China. “I don’t believe in subsidies that prop up corn, soybeans and ethanol.”
Huntsman said that he thought such subsidies “distort the global marketplace” and lead to higher food prices.
Huntsman, who is sounding more and more like a candidate, said that his early-state strategy won’t include Iowa. “We will be competing vigorously here, and in South Carolina and in Florida,” he told a handful of supporters in rural North Conway, New Hampshire, on Saturday.
Huntsman, who believes that the race for the Republican nomination is wide open, is currently conducting a three-day, eleven-stop tour of the Granite State.
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