“So I had to say I believe in science — and people on stage look at you quizzically as though you’re was an oddball,” Huntsman said, explaining why he was “toast” in Iowa.

Huntsman said he could not win the nomination of the Republican Party in Utah, and said Ronald Reagan would “likely not” be able to win the GOP nomination nationally in this environment.

On foreign policy, Huntsman questioned his former Republican opponents’ hard-line positions on China. “I don’t know what world these people are living in,” he said, not naming Mitt Romney by name.