Posted on 11/27/2019 3:17:32 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders said that she’s “been called” to run for office and has indicated that she is considering a run for governor of Arkansas in 2022.
Sanders, who left the White House less than six months ago, is eyeing a run for governor after current Republican Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson’s term is up in 2023, The New York Times reported. Sanders is currently a contributor for Fox News.
“There are two types of people who run for office,” Sanders said last week, according to The New York Times. “People that are called and people that just want to be a senator or governor. I feel like I’ve been called.”
“It’s the role I’ve been pushed into,” Sanders added, speaking about the governor spot. “I wouldn’t want to do that if I wasn’t the right person to fit what the state needed at that time.”
The Republican Party of Arkansas has already signaled its support for Sanders, should she decide to run for governor.
The former press secretary has a family history of running for office. Her father Mike Huckabee was the governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007 and ran for president twice. President Donald Trump also suggested she run for governor when she left as press secretary earlier this year, The New York Times reported.
Sanders did not officially announce a run for governor, but hinted throughout the interview that she’s considering it. At one point, she asked a reporter if they’d vote for her, the paper noted. “Would you vote for me if you lived in Arkansas?” she asked. “I’ll put you down as a yes.”
“I’m just excited to have people clap when I come up to a podium,” Sanders said of attending events the deep red state she calls home. “It’s very different from what I’m used to. All I can say is thank God I’m back in Arkansas.”
Go Sarah Go!!
I love and admire that lady!
Love that woman. She could be POTUS someday.
Naked sexist here.
I’d vote for her.
Absolutely one of my favorite people in the Trump Administration. Very sharp, and not at all afraid to speak her mind and engage hard with the left.
I wish her the best but I hope she has incredibly thick skin. They will tear her apart.
I think she proved she can take it with those jackals at the briefings.
Like they already haven't?
At this point nothing they say matters. What are they going to do? Call her a racist? They've blown their wad.
Sarah Huckabee-Sanders as the first woman President would drive the Left-wing lemmings right off the cliff.
If she can handle Jim Acosta, she can handle being President.
Well, I know who I am going to be voting for Governor then.
I’d vote for her.
Huh?
Absolutely. The best thing about not having regular press conferences is that I don’t have to see Acosta anymore. In fact, it probably has tanked his career. He was a one trick pony.
She was on one of the Fox shows last night, Hannity I think, and her Arkansas drawl has returned to a noticeable degree.
That will help ;-)
It was Hannity, because I now remember him asking her about baking pies. None for you this year, April. You’re too fat as it is...
Yeah, go Sarah.
You da woman - and so very much better than ANY Dimbulbcrat that I can think of.
I hope she does run.
I’m in Texas, but ready to send a big check.
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