The party of Lincoln should be reaching out to blacks, Hispanics gays and so forth and so on.

He was a member of the Republican Party and a member of the United States House of Representatives for one term 1993–1995 from California. In the 2003 California recall election Huffington endorsed Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger. Electoral history.

Michael Huffington (born September 3 1947) is an American politician bisexual activist and film producer. Huffington was married to Arianna Huffington the Greek-born co-founder of The Huffington Post from 1986 to 1997.