Former Trump Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders Elected Governor of Arkansas

First female governor in the state

Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders, here speaking at the America First Policy Institute Agenda Summit in Washington in July 2022, presented a stark, and searing, juxtaposition between a “new generation of Republican leadership” and the Biden administration in her rebuttal to President Joe Biden’s Feb. 7 State of the Union address. Mandel Ngan/AFP via Getty Images

Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former White House press secretary under President Donald Trump, has been elected the governor of her home state of Arkansas.

Sanders, who had been heavily favored to win the race, defeated her Democrat opponent, Chris Jones, with over 62.9 percent of the vote.