“The tea party has completely captivated and ruined the Republican Party today and they’ll show this in 2016,” Huntsman Sr. said last week, Yahoo News reported. “Unless a Jeb Bush comes in or John Huntsman Jr., the Republicans don’t have a prayer.”
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The junior Mr. Huntsman, who unsuccessfully sought the GOP nomination in 2012, now serves as the U.S. ambassador to China.
Asked whether his son will run again in 2016, Mr. Huntsman Sr. said: “I don’t think so [but] I wish he’d listen to his father and would run. He’s just a bright, wonderful, decent individual who brings people together, who’s unifying … who is intelligent and knows the world of foreign policy extremely well,” Yahoo News reported.
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