Natalie Gonnella
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Less than 24 hours after the New Hampshire GOP debate, Jon Huntsman has confirmed that he will officially enter the 2012 presidential race next week, launching his campaign "kick off" event in New Jersey.
According to the LA Times:
Speaking in New York at a forum on China with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, Huntsman said he'll announce his candidacy "a week from today." Sources close to the Republican say the kickoff event will take place at Liberty State Park, followed by a campaign swing through key early-voting states...The choice of Liberty State Park, just across the New York harbor from lower Manhattan, is a nod to Ronald Reagan, the last Republican to defeat a sitting Democratic president, who kicked off his general election campaign there in 1980...Following the announcement in New Jersey, Huntsman will travel directly to New Hampshire, the first primary state. The following day he'll campaign in South Carolina, home of the first Southern primary. On June 23 he'll stop in Florida, where he'll base his campaign.
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