Making a reservation under someone else’s name makes perfectly good sense for someone who is in the public eye and wants to avoid publicity or a confrontation.
She used her own name - Sanders. As in Sarah Huckabee Sanders.
I’ve always assumed Sanders was her married name...so she made a reservation in her name. I’ve used my husband’s name for 25 years, I would find it super odd if someone said I signed something or made a reservation with my husband’s name. Just thinking that was a bogus point in the article. If she had use her father’s name, would they have refused the reservation?