{"id":1491332,"date":"2022-05-25T09:44:41","date_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:44:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1491332"},"modified":"2022-05-25T09:44:46","modified_gmt":"2022-05-25T13:44:46","slug":"sarah-huckabee-sanders-wins-arkansas-gop-gubernatorial-nomination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sarah-huckabee-sanders-wins-arkansas-gop-gubernatorial-nomination\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Huckabee Sanders Wins Arkansas GOP Gubernatorial Nomination"},"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-gubernatorial-nomination%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=1491332&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><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/sarah-huckabee-sanders\">Sarah Huckabee Sanders<\/a>, the former Trump administration spokeswoman and daughter of a three-term Arkansas governor, won the state GOP nomination Tuesday for the office her father once held.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders, 39, bested\u00a0former talk radio host and podcaster Doc Washburn in a landslide, netting over 83% of the vote. She will run against nuclear engineer and minister Chris Jones, who won the Democratic nomination for governor. During her victory speech Tuesday night, Sanders invoked the fatal shooting of <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/breaking-death-toll-from-texas-elementary-school-shooting-continues-to-climb\">at least 19 children<\/a>\u00a0inside a Texas elementary school as a \u201cstark and humbling reminder of just how precious life is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-69 Component-p-0-2-60\">\u201cEvery single life has value and the most vulnerable among us should be those that we are fighting for and protecting the most,\u201d Sanders said from Little Rock. \u201cI can assure you that in my administration, that\u2019s exactly what we will do. We will make sure that when a kid is in the womb, they\u2019re as safe as they are in the classroom, the workplace, the nursing home, because every stage of life has value.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">BREAKING: Sarah Huckabee Sanders will be the GOP nominee for Arkansas Governor. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/yP7F3TKnY5\">pic.twitter.com\/yP7F3TKnY5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Election Wizard \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 (@ElectionWiz) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ElectionWiz\/status\/1529266357879070722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 25, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-69 Component-p-0-2-60\">Sanders, a married mother of three, smashed state fundraising records and blitzed Arkansas with TV ads blasting President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris. The primary was never in doubt, and she has a huge advantage in the general election in a state\u00a0\u00a0that hasn\u2019t elected a Democrat governor since 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Her father, Mike Huckabee, held the Natural State\u2019s highest office from 1996-2007. Current Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican who took office in 2015, was barred by term limits from seeking re-election.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders\u00a0served as\u00a0former President Trump\u2019s White House press secretary until June 2019, after taking over as deputy White House press secretary in July 2017, after Sean Spicer left the administration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-1wxyvyl-0 kILHPL body-paragraph\">During her two-year stint in the White House, Sanders was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2018\/04\/28\/white-house-correspondents-dinner-2018-trump-sarah-huckabee-sanders-559190\">scorned by the media<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxbusiness.com\/politics\/sarah-huckabee-sanderss-dad-mike-huckabee-blasts-snl-parody\">mocked by Hollywood<\/a>, and even <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/listen-sarah-sanders-family-harassed-much-worse-amanda-prestigiacomo\">chased out of a Virginia restaurant<\/a> just because she worked in the administration. But she won the respect and loyalty of her boss, who made her his earliest post-presidency endorsement.<\/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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trump-makes-first-endorsement-since-leaving-office\">Trump said less than a week after leaving office<\/a>. \u201cSarah is strong on Borders, tough on Crime, and fully supports the Second Amendment and our great law enforcement officers,\u201d Trump wrote in a statement. \u201cShe loves our Military and Veterans \u2013 and her home state of Arkansas. Sarah will be a GREAT governor and she has my Complete and Total Endorsement!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the former Trump administration spokeswoman and daughter of a three-term Arkansas governor, won the state GOP nomination Tuesday for the office her father once held. Sanders, 39, bested\u00a0former talk radio host and podcaster Doc Washburn in a landslide, netting over 83% of the vote. 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