In a margin so tight, Huckabee’s Sunday rally with Deal and the phone banking his political action committee conducted in Georgia may have been just enough to put Deal over the edge. Reached by email on Wednesday, Huckabee alluded to the impact his visit seems to have made.

“Check the poll numbers before I went and compare them to the election,” Huckabee wrote in an email to RealClearPolitics. “You can draw your own conclusions.”