{"id":1490937,"date":"2022-05-25T07:01:06","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:01:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1490937"},"modified":"2022-05-25T07:02:18","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T11:02:18","slug":"sarah-huckabee-sanders-wins-arkansas-gov-gop-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sarah-huckabee-sanders-wins-arkansas-gov-gop-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Huckabee Sanders Wins Arkansas Gov. GOP Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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-gov-gop-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=1490937&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/25\/sarah-huckabee-sanders-running-for-arkansas-governor\/\">Former Trump White House press secretary Sarah Sanders<\/a> coasted to victory in Tuesday\u2019s Republican\u00a0primary election for governor in Arkansas.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, was <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/01\/26\/trump-backs-sarah-huckabee-sanders-in-arkansas-governor-run\/\">backed by former President Donald Trump<\/a> and easily defeated radio host Doc Washburn with 82.2% to his 17.8% with the race called based on 34% of precincts reporting.<\/p>\n<p>Washburn had mounted a long-shot bid to upset Sanders, who spent 23 months as Trump\u2019s chief spokesperson between 2017 and 2019, but couldn\u2019t overcome the wide gap in polling and fundraising. <\/p>\n<p>Sanders crisscrossed the state and ran a campaign touting conservative values focusing on education, economic development and rebuilding the state\u2019s workforce and infrastructure.\u00a0\u200b<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u200bWe have to do a better job and that starts at the basic level \u2014 making sure we\u2019re actually educating, not indoctrinating our kids, we are empowering parents, not government bureaucrats, and that we are preparing kids for the workforce \u2014 not a lifetime of government dependency\u200b,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/katv.com\/news\/local\/katv-primary-election-feature-sarah-huckabee-sanders-gop-governor-hopeful\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">she told <\/a>\u200bKATV over the weekend.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/sarah-sanders-arkansas-donald-trump.jpg\"><\/a><figcaption>Sanders was endorsed by former President Donald Trump.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Photo by Joe Raedle\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/sarah-sanders-arkansas-governor-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/sarah-sanders-arkansas-governor-3.jpg\" alt=\"Sanders \u2014 the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee \u2014 defeated radio host Doc Washburn in the primary.\" class=\"wp-image-22393497\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/sarah-sanders-arkansas-governor-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/sarah-sanders-arkansas-governor-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/05\/sarah-sanders-arkansas-governor-3.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Sanders \u2014 the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee \u2014 defeated radio host Doc Washburn in the primary.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Twitter \/ Sarah Huckabee Sanders<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Sanders is the favorite to win the November election and succeed <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/05\/01\/arkansas-gov-asa-hutchinson-2024-run-on-the-table\/\">term-limited Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson<\/a>. She will likely will match up against Democrat Chris Jones, a nuclear engineer and minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Trump White House press secretary Sarah Sanders coasted to victory in Tuesday\u2019s Republican\u00a0primary election for governor in Arkansas. Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. 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