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Jon Huntsman said Wednesday that he had not seen the ad recently released by the pro-Huntsman Our Destiny PAC in New Hampshire, and did not know whether his father had helped fund the $650,000 ad buy in New Hampshire.

"He's my dad, he's my best friend, he can do whatever he wants to do. We don't talk about those things, we can't," Huntsman said on CNN. "I'm just delighted we got some outside assistance from wherever it might come from that believes in our cause."

Huntsman has struggled to gain a foothold in Republican polls or the fundraising race. At the end of the last fiscal quarter, he had burned through almost all of the $4 million he raised, leaving the campaign with less than half a million dollars in the bank â€" and nearly a million in debt.

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