{"id":27181,"date":"2022-11-09T02:58:06","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T02:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=27181"},"modified":"2026-07-08T02:22:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T02:22:16","slug":"trump-support-sarah-huckabee-elected-as-arkansas-governor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/11\/09\/trump-support-sarah-huckabee-elected-as-arkansas-governor\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump support Sarah Huckabee elected as Arkansas Governor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders<\/strong> was elected Arkansas governor on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to lead the state and the highest profile Trump administration official in elected office.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders defeated Democratic nominee Chris Jones<\/strong> in the race for governor in her predominantly Republican home state, where former President Donald Trump remains popular. Sanders had been heavily favored to win the race, which also included Libertarian nominee Ricky Dale Harrington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders shattered state fundraising records<\/strong>with her campaign, which focused primarily on national issues<\/strong>. Sanders, the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee, regularly promised to use the office to fight President Joe Biden and the \u201cradical left.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders succeeds Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson, who is leaving office in January due to term limits. Hutchinson, who endorsed Sanders\u2019 bid, is considering running for president in 2024 and has frequently split with Trump.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trump publicly encouraged Sanders to run for governor when she left the White House in 2019 to return to Arkansas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Sanders was a known figure in the state long before Trump. She appeared in ads for her father and worked on his campaigns. She managed\u00a0Sen. John Boozman\u2019s<\/strong>\u00a02010 election and worked as an adviser to Sen. Tom Cotton\u2019s in 2014.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders briefly left the campaign trail in September after undergoing surgery for thyroid cancer.<\/strong> Her doctor said Sanders was cancer free after the surgery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During Sanders\u2019 nearly two-year tenure at the White House<\/strong>, she scaled back daily televised briefings after repeatedly sparring with reporters who aggressively questioned her. She faced questions about her credibility, particularly after special counsel Robert Mueller\u2019s report revealed that Sanders admitted making an unfounded claim to reporters about FBI agents\u2019 reaction to director James Comey\u2019s firing. But she also earned reporters\u2019 respect working behind the scenes to develop relationships with the media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders embraced Trump\u2019s rhetoric during her bid for governor and adopted many of his favorite targets, including critical race theory and the national news media. But she\u2019s avoided criticizing Hutchinson, even after the former president labeled Hutchinson a RINO \u2014 Republican In Name Only \u2014 for vetoing an anti-transgender law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sanders said she would have signed that measure \u2014 a ban on gender affirming care for minors \u2014 into law.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She\u2019s stopped short of agreeing with Trump that his loss in the 2020 presidential election was stolen, though she\u2019s said the former president has the right to make that claim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jones, an ordained Baptist minister and nuclear engineer, had presented himself to voters as a more unifying figure than Sanders. He launched his campaign with a video that went viral where he talked about his family\u2019s history in the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders was elected Arkansas governor on Tuesday, becoming the first woman to lead the state and the highest profile Trump administration official in elected office. Sanders defeated Democratic nominee Chris Jones in the race for governor in her predominantly Republican home state, where former President Donald Trump remains popular. Sanders had been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":27182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[7744,9793,8348,5178,10387,1221,2808,913,10537,911,1099,5455,2471,5139,10342,3874,6666,3805,11377,1776,6200,6944,8480,8479,6965,9210,2025,5511,13182,184,8033,6571,2982,5273,594],"class_list":["post-27181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world-news","tag-arkansas","tag-asa-hutchinson","tag-ban","tag-biden","tag-campaign","tag-cancer","tag-daughter","tag-democratic","tag-doctor","tag-election","tag-engineer","tag-family","tag-joe-biden","tag-jones","tag-law","tag-lead","tag-nuclear","tag-president","tag-presidential","tag-presidential-election","tag-race","tag-republican","tag-repubublican","tag-sarah-huckabee","tag-split","tag-surgery","tag-thyroid-cancer","tag-transgender","tag-trump-administration","tag-united-states-president-donald-john-trump-jr","tag-video","tag-white","tag-white-house","tag-woman","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51329,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27181\/revisions\/51329"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}