Former Republican presidential candidate Jon Huntsman continued to offer a critical take on his party’s current woes, arguing during a Friday morning appearance on CNN that the GOP often gets bogged down addressing “fringe issues.”
“We kind of drift in areas where we take on fringe issues, and it gets us stuck in the alleyways of life that take our focus away from what is really important for the American people, and that is individual freedom and that is getting the budgets balanced so people can get on with their lives,” Huntsman said.
The comments come on the heels of an interview Huntsman gave to the Huffington Post earlier this week in which the former Utah governor took aim at other members of the GOP presidential field in 2012.
