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Mike Huckabee: Real Movement Should Be ‘Male Lives Matter’

In response to a fact-check about recent BLM comments.

In defending his comments that more white people were shot by police officers last year than minorities, former Arkansas Governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said “Male Lives Matter” should be the “real movement.” The Washington Post’s fact checker clarified Huckabee’s original comments for readers, saying the raw numbers are correct but a more accurate representation would be a rate. Huckabee released the following statement to the Post in response: “It’s not me that needs to be ‘fact checked.’ It’s the Post—I only said exactly what YOU reported. My comments were 100 percent factual. The pure facts also reveal that 94 percent of those killed by police are men, so by your ‘proportional’ standards, the real movement in America should be ‘Male Lives Matter.’”