Only on Brody File: Mike Huckabee Says GOP Should Focus on Obama's Abortion Record Not Akin Comment

In a one-on-one interview with The Brody File, Mike Huckabee says the GOP should be focusing on President Obama’s radical abortion policy rather than trying to force Todd Akin out of the Missouri Senate Race.

Huckabee sat down with us at the GOP Convention in Tampa and will be one of our guests on this week’s Brody File Show this Friday at 9:30 a.m. ET on the ABC Family Channel.

Watch below along with the transcription.

David Brody: I don't want to rehash the whole situation but at some point did this become a piling on situation from the GOP establishment?

Mike Huckabee: For me, it was a matter of, if somebody on our team fumbles the ball, then we have to run the next play from scrimmage, not go out there and ask everyone in the stands would you please stop and see who fumbled? Let’s go out there and put the spotlight on him. No, let’s get back in the huddle, we may even sit out a while, but the point is we’ve got to continue the game, and the best way to do it is to show the difference between us and them.

I think the most important thing for the Republicans to do, because you know, here’s an individual who admitted what he said was wrong, apologized for it, okay that’s all he can do. What we’ve got to do is say, you know, the issue is not some one comment that one person made and repudiated and apologized for, it is the litany of what Barack Obama has done, has actually done, and has never apologized for gender selected abortion, his support for partial birth abortion, his three time, three time refusal in Illinois as a state senator to vote for a bill that would have required medical attention for a baby born alive from a botched abortion.

He is so far beyond most of the very liberal members of his own party, that I think that’s the contrast to point out, that’s the record that we ought to be asking for an apology of.