{"id":1490742,"date":"2022-05-24T21:30:09","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T01:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490742"},"modified":"2022-05-24T21:31:15","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T01:31:15","slug":"sarah-huckabee-sanders-wins-arkansas-gop-governor-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sarah-huckabee-sanders-wins-arkansas-gop-governor-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Huckabee Sanders Wins Arkansas GOP Governor Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsarah-huckabee-sanders-wins-arkansas-gop-governor-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490742&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary during the Trump administration, won the Republican nomination for Arkansas\u2019 2022 gubernatorial race on Tuesday, according to multiple election forecasters.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders\u2019 only opponent on election day was <a href=\"https:\/\/talkbusiness.net\/2022\/03\/gop-gubernatorial-candidate-doc-washburn-on-sarah-sanders-i-believe-shes-a-rino\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Doc Washburn<\/a>, a former conservative radio talk show host. State Lieutenant Governor Tim Griffin and Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.arkansasonline.com\/news\/2021\/nov\/09\/leslie-rutledge-drops-out-arkansas-governors-race-\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dropped out<\/a> of the race before election day, with the former choosing to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aaronlarnavarro\/status\/1358776105109516291?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1358776105109516291%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fembedly.forbes.com%2Fwidgets%2Fmedia.html%3Ftype%3Dtext2Fhtmlkey%3D3ce26dc7e3454db5820ba084d28b4935schema%3Dtwitterurl%3Dhttps3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2Faaronlarnavarro%2Fstatus%2F13587761051095162913Fs3D20image%3D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">leave the race<\/a> only two weeks after Sanders\u2019 announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Her campaign reported massive fundraising hauls over the course of the race, bringing in more than $14 million between her announcement and April 2022, the Associated Press <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/2022-midterm-elections-arkansas-campaigns-campaign-finance-f8d974c9d5d4dd200847cbffceb08188\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>. She had almost $7.4 million on hand as of April.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7435178\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7435178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. President Donald Trump stands with Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who announced that she is stepping down as the White House press secretary, during his rally where he announced his candidacy for a second presidential term at the Amway Center on June 18, 2019 in Orlando, Florida. (Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Sanders <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/01\/25\/sarah-huckabee-sanders-run-governor-arkansas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">launched her campaign<\/a> in Jan. 2021, receiving the endorsement of both former President <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/03\/15\/donald-trump-surprise-appearance-sarah-huckabee-sanders-campaign-event-arkansas-governor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Donald Trump<\/a> and current Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSarah Huckabee Sanders is a warrior who will always fight for the people of Arkansas and do what is right, not what is politically correct,\u201d Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahHuckabee\/status\/1353919930333327360\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in his endorsement. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/26\/donald-trump-jd-vance-mehmet-oz-nancy-mace\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: These Are The States Where Trump\u2019s Endorsement Actually Matters)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve known Sarah Huckabee Sanders most of her life and know firsthand her love for our state and her heart for public service,\u201d Hutchinson <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/12\/arkansas-governor-endorses-sarah-huckabee-sanders-successor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a> in his endorsement announcement. \u201cSarah has earned the Republican nomination and I\u2019m delighted today to endorse her for Governor. The state of Arkansas will be in good hands with Sarah as Governor, and she has my full support.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sanders is the daughter of former Republican Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who was in office between 1996 and 2007. He <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2015\/05\/05\/mike-huckabee-enters-presidential-race-striking-a-populist-tone\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ran for president<\/a> in 2008 and 2016 but lost the GOP primary to former Arizona Sen. John McCain and Trump, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary during the Trump administration, won the Republican nomination for Arkansas\u2019 2022 gubernatorial race on Tuesday, according to multiple election forecasters.Sanders\u2019 only opponent on<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":1490764,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1490742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1490742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1490742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1490764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1490742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1490742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1490742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}