Sarah Sanders, ex-Trump press secretary, to run for Arkansas governor
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Via: sister-mary-agnes-ample-bottom • 3 years ago • 31 commentsBy: Monica Alba and Hallie Jackson (MSN)
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Sarah Sanders, ex-Trump press secretary, to run for Arkansas governor
Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is expected to announce a run for governor of Arkansas on Monday, according to two people familiar with her plans.
Sanders has toyed with launching a campaign since leaving her post in 2019 and has been quietly planning for the bid over the last year. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson cannot seek re-election in 2022 because of term limits.
Sanders, whose father, Mike Huckabee, was governor from 1996 to 2007, is expected to launch her candidacy Monday.
Sanders took over as press secretary from Sean Spicer, who resigned in 2017. A loyal ally of former President Donald Trump, she had a contentious relationship with the White House press corps and all but did away with official briefings during her 2½-year tenure.
When Trump announced that Sanders would be leaving her position in June 2019, she hadn't held a briefing in 94 days.
Sanders had come under fire weeks before, when the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election by special counsel Robert Mueller revealed that she had made up an assertion about the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
One day after Comey's firing in 2117, Sanders said during a briefing that "countless" FBI agents had told the White House that they had lost confidence in Comey. But according to Mueller's report, she told federal investigators that she had no evidence to back up the claim.
Sanders described the false assertion as a "slip of the tongue."
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She can't be serious.
it's the same tax exempt money raising scam her dad was doing every time he ran for president.
That doesn't surprise me one bit.
She's totally serious. She announced this morning. She has no governing experience but republicans don't care about that.
Help me...
Then she is the perfect man for the job!
Sorry. I don't live there anymore.
I was there for her father, who, at the time, seemed to be ok as a governor goes, but state politics was not my largest concern at the time.
I've been here since 1997. I thought highly of Huckabee until he was re-elected and then he really fouled things up by trying to create super agencies. He only managed to combine Human Services and the Health Department. It was a disaster. When Mike Beebe was elected the first thing he did was split the one "super agency" apart.
(I’ll be big state elitist for a moment) It’s Arkansas. Is experience really necessary? Can she make things worse?
Yes, especially if she takes advice from Dear Old Dad
"She's totally serious. She announced this morning. She has no governing experience but republicans don't care about that.
Help me..."
You need to run for governor TG.
no
I don't see this as any big deal.
Haven't people run for U.S. Senator with zero prior experience?
A lot of people run for office with no experience. I’m not sure it makes a big load of difference one way or another. They all promise stuff they can’t actually do or that they might be able to do if there was zero opposition in the legislature and the Constitution weren’t a thing.
Exactly.
It is ONLY a big deal to some fine folks because of who she once worked for,
This, for sure.
She'll run and she will win...... Arkansas can't help itself.
The fine folks of Arkansas will need to have really short memories.
There's plenty here who don't like her. The problem is finding a democrat to run. Right now there looks like there may be 3 republicans running and only one doesn't stink
She is and we will support her. I’ll donate since I don’t live there. The More pro Trump office holders the better.
Arkansas takes another step backward.
Hey it's not all bad...we not 50th in education...but we're damn close
Don't tell me...
THANK GOD FOR MISSISSIPPI!
LOL!
She will probably do good. Knows how to lie with a straight face.
It seems some maga people like to be lied to.
Honestly, I think that’s the number one trait a candidate needs. It may not make for good government, but it gets a person elected.
Isn't that a sad commentary...
Seems to me this is only an issue because she was press secretary for Trump.
And some people won't ever forget that, and hate her for it.
People run for office every single year that some deem unfit.
But isn't it really up to the voters?
Her daddy supported Josh Duggar after it was found that he was molesting his pre-teen sisters.
And what exactly does that have to do with her?
Guilty by association. I mean, the right lambasted Obama over knowing some preacher in his past, so there ya go!
What nonsense!
Obama willingly chose to go to that church and remain a member after some of those comments were made. He only denounced them after being criticized about it.
She didn't get to choose her parents.
BIG difference, obviously lost to some fine folks.
Using YOUR very own "impeccable logic", is President Biden a drug user because his son was?
Or are you going to employ a double standard?