Economics
Huntsman Heads South With Wall Street Plan Tougher Than Obama
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Jon Huntsman Jr.’s third-place finish in New Hampshire gives the former Utah governor at least a little more time to pitch voters on his plan to shrink the biggest U.S. banks.
Huntsman is campaigning for the Jan. 21 Republican primary in South Carolina, a state with a conservative base that President Barack Obama lost by almost nine points in 2008 to Republican Senator John McCain. Huntsman’s Wall Street plan would crack down harder on the banks than some parts of the Dodd-Frank Act Obama pushed through Congress in 2010.