Sarah Huckabee Sanders Announces Run For Arkansas Governor

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders the former White House Press Secretary for the Trump White House announced she is running for governor of Arkansas. Sanders is seen above during an appearance on Fox News in 2019.

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Sanders, who left the White House in 2019, reminded Arkansans in her announcement video that she was just the third woman and first mother to serve as White House press secretary. She added she will «not be intimidated by the serious challenges we face.

She vowed to stand with law enforcement officers, eradicate sanctuary cities and fight for the working poor.

«With the radical left now in control of Washington, your governor is your last line of defense, Sanders added. «As governor, I will defend your right to be free of socialism and tyranny. Your Second Amendment right to keep your family safe and your freedom of speech and religious liberty. Our state needs a leader with the courage to do what’s right, not what’s politically correct or convenient.

If elected as Arkansas governor, she’ll follow in the footsteps of her father, who served two terms from 1996 to 2007. He also ran unsuccessfully for the Republican presidential nomination in both 2008 and 2016.

The 38-year-old Sanders is running to succeed the term-limited GOP Gov. Asa Hutchinson. She enters a 2022 Republican primary field that already includes Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin and Leslie Rutledge, the state’s attorney general.