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Sarah Sanders, the former White House press secretary for President Donald Trump, is set to make a powerful return to public office.
Sanders is widely remembered as a major force in the Trump White House for her ability to square off against a media that was desperate to destroy Trump.
Sanders, who announced her candidacy in January, received a number of key endorsements while running to be governor in her native state of Arkansas.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has dropped out of the running, which creates a clear path to victory.
This means “big trouble for the Biden administration,” Western Journal notes.
She received endorsements from current Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson as well as the state’s two senators, Tom Cotton and John Boozman.
Sanders is endorsed by all four congressmen from Arkansas, which includes French Hill, Steve Womack, Rick Crawford and Bruce Westerman.
More from Western Journal:
Former President Donald Trump beat President Joe Biden by over 27 points in 2020 and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton by nearly the same margin in 2016.
Former President Bill Clinton, who defeated Sen. Bob Dole in 1996, was the last Democrat to win a presidential election in the state.
Sanders’ father, Fox News contributor Mike Huckabee, served as governor in the state from 1996 to 2007…
All things considered, chances are excellent that she will be the next governor of Arkansas. And that’s bad news for Joe Biden.
She would replace Hutchinson who, although a Republican, is not considered entirely trustworthy by conservatives.
For example, he quickly accepted Biden as the victor on Nov. 15, amid abundant allegations of election fraud.
In April, he drew the ire of conservatives when he vetoed an anti-transgender health care bill that would “block doctors from providing transgender youth with medical care such as puberty blockers, hormone therapies and transition-related surgeries,” according to a report in The Hill. (Trump even branded him a “RINO” — Republican in Name Only — for the move.)
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