Sarah Huckebee Sanders, President Donald Trump’s former White House press secretary, announced in a video her gubernatorial campaign in Arkansas on Monday morning.
“With the radical left now in control of Washington, your governor is your last line of defense,” Sanders said. “In fact, your governor must be on the front line. So today I announce my candidacy for governor of Arkansas.”
The former Trump official railed against “socialism” and painted herself as a victim of “the far left and their allies at CNN and the New York Times.”
She also tied her candidacy to Trump’s action while in office, describing how she had been “at the table” with the former president.
Sanders departed from the White House in June 2019. Around that time, she was reportedly already putting out feelers for a potential gubernatorial bid, following the footsteps of her father, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R).
Trump signaled his approval for her potential campaign at the time he announced her departure.
“I hope she decides to run for Governor of Arkansas – she would be fantastic,” he tweeted.
As White House press secretary, Sanders spun the Trump administration’s border policy of separating migrant kids from their families as “very biblical” and admitted to Special Counsel Robert Mueller that she had lied to the press about FBI officials’ support for Trump’s firing of ex-FBI director James Comey.
I experienced this constant drumbeat about “socialism” way back in the 2014 congressional campaign of an old friend when I went back to my native ND to help.
It was weird-ugly then, and now I realize is a normalized part of the world outlook of the RWNJs who populate the party of Lincoln. This notion has been baked into their consciousness.
Drain the swamp! Right into Arkansas!
If it serves the wealthy it isn’t socialism.
I had to go off on Josh Dawsey, idiot savant from WaPo last night for this tweet about:
He then proceeded to call President Joe Biden, simply “Joe Biden” in a follow up tweet.
This SOB should be fired first thing this morning. For either, A) complete and utter incompetence at his job or B) inability to maintain objectivity and instead replacing facts with fantasy. Either reason is more than grounds to let him go IMO, especially in a market where there are plenty of political reporters looking for jobs.
GOP: The Next Generation
How nepotism + failing upwards failed to grow the new “be best” generation.