1. Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders is an American politician serving as the 47th governor of Arkansas since 2023.
64 Facts About Sarah Huckabee Sanders
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders served as a senior advisor on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders became the Republican nominee in the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election and won, defeating Democratic nominee Chris Jones.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders hosted fewer press conferences than any of the 13 previous White House press secretaries.
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In June 2019, Trump tweeted that Sarah Huckabee Sanders would be leaving her role as press secretary.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders secured the Republican nomination in May 2022; her general election opponents were the Democratic nominee, Chris Jones, and the Libertarian nominee, Ricky Dale Harrington.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the first woman to hold the office, the first woman to be governor of a state of which her father was governor, and the youngest current governor.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders has been recognized in Fortune and Time magazine's "40 under 40".
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the author of The New York Times bestseller Speaking for Myself, is a former Fox News Channel contributor, and served on the Fulbright board.
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Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee was born on August 13,1982, in Hope, Arkansas.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the youngest child and only daughter of Mike Huckabee and Janet Huckabee, both politicians.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders has two brothers, John Mark Huckabee and David Huckabee.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was elected student body president of the university and was active in Republican organizations.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was involved in her father's first campaign for the United States Senate in 1992.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders called her "doggone tough" and "fearless" due to having grown up with two brothers.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was a field coordinator for her father's 2002 reelection campaign for governor of Arkansas.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was a regional liaison for congressional affairs at the US Department of Education under President George W Bush, and worked as a field coordinator for Bush's reelection campaign in Ohio in 2004.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is a founding partner of Second Street Strategies in Little Rock, a general consulting services provider for Republican campaigns.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders worked on national political campaigns and campaigns for federal office in Arkansas.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was national political director for her father's 2008 presidential campaign.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was a senior adviser to Tim Pawlenty in his 2012 presidential run.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was involved in the campaigns of both US senators from Arkansas, managing John Boozman's 2010 campaign and serving as a senior adviser to Tom Cotton's 2014 campaign.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was the national campaign manager for the ONE Campaign, a global nonprofit founded by Bono aimed at ending global poverty and preventable diseases.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders stood in for Spicer during the dismissal of James Comey and the controversy following it.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders continued to fill in for Spicer occasionally.
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On June 27,2017, during a press briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders criticized the media, accusing them of spreading "fake news" about Trump.
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On July 21,2017, after Spicer announced that he was going to resign, newly appointed White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci announced that Sarah Huckabee Sanders would take the role of White House press secretary.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the third woman to hold the role of White House Press Secretary after Dee Dee Myers in 1993 and Dana Perino in 2007.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is the first mother, and first working mother, to ever hold the position.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded, "Yeah, we've been clear on that since the beginning, and the President has spoken on it", without elaborating.
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In February 2018, after Rob Porter left the White House over domestic abuse allegations, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Porter's background check was "ongoing, and the White House had not received any specific papers regarding the completion of that background check".
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that Porter had made a "personal decision" to leave the White House, while White House deputy press secretary Raj Shah said that Porter was "terminated".
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In July 2018, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the Trump White House would discuss allowing Russian agents to interrogate former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders had a tumultuous relationship with the press and was the subject of numerous personal attacks regarding her looks and her weight.
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The next day, to justify the White House's actions, Sarah Huckabee Sanders released a video of the moment the intern tried to grab the microphone from Acosta's hand.
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Data obtained by NBC News contradicted Sarah Huckabee Sanders's assertion, showing that from October 1,2017, to March 31,2018, only six immigrants on the No Fly List were encountered at ports of entry on the Mexico border.
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On June 13,2019, Trump tweeted that Sarah Huckabee Sanders would leave her role as press secretary on June 30.
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The White House had a 41-day streak that ended in January 2019, then a 42-day streak that ended in March 2019, followed by 94 days and counting without a formal press briefing when Sarah Huckabee Sanders's departure was announced.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders lied about Trump's being in charge of a statement regarding the Trump Tower meeting.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders worked on said statement with his advisor Hope Hicks, and when the emails about that statement were made public, it was reported that he had helped with it himself.
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In March 2019, after Attorney General William Barr released a summary of Mueller's report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, Sarah Huckabee Sanders falsely claimed that the investigation's findings were "a total and complete exoneration".
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders repeated her suggestion that the report exonerated Trump in May 2019, and falsely claimed that Mueller had "closed the case".
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On January 25,2021, Sanders announced her candidacy for governor of Arkansas, an office her father, Mike Huckabee, held from 1996 to 2007.
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On July 16,2021, Sarah Huckabee Sanders broke the Arkansas gubernatorial fundraising record by raising over $9 million.
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In October 2021, the Arkansas Law Notes published an article that called into question whether Sarah Huckabee Sanders was even eligible to run for governor.
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The article centers on whether Sarah Huckabee Sanders meets the State Constitution's residency requirement of seven years.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders handily won the Republican primary and defeated Democratic nominee Chris Jones in the general election.
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On November 9,2022, it was announced that Sarah Huckabee Sanders had won the race and would become Arkansas's first female governor and the first woman to be governor of a state where her father was governor.
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On her first day in office, Sarah Huckabee Sanders banned the term Latinx from being officially used in the state government.
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In 2023, Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a bill to allow a privately funded anti-abortion "monument to the unborn" to be displayed on Capitol grounds.
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On March 31,2023, Sarah Huckabee Sanders declared a state of emergency in Arkansas after a tornado hit the state.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced that she had spoken to President Joe Biden, who promised Arkansas federal aid to assist with the recovery.
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In June 2023, Sarah Huckabee Sanders's office purchased a custom-made lectern for $19,029.25.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders denied any impropriety and said she welcomed the audit.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders said it had additional features that contributed to its cost, including a custom height.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders later signed a law limiting public access to information about her security detail and her travels.
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In October 2023, Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed an executive order to eliminate the usage of "woke, anti-woman words" from official state documents.
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On March 18,2025, Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed the nitrogen hypoxia death penalty bill into law, making Arkansas the fifth state to allow execution by nitrogen hypoxia.
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In 2010, Sarah Huckabee Sanders was named one of Times "40 under 40" in politics.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders supported the boycott by promoting "Real Women" beer can koozies.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was the campaign's field director, and Sanders was hired as a media consultant.
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On June 22,2018, a co-owner of a 26-seat restaurant in Lexington, Virginia, 200 miles from Washington, DC, asked Sarah Huckabee Sanders to leave the restaurant because she worked for the Trump administration, giving rise to the Red Hen restaurant controversy.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer in September 2022.
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders had surgery to remove her thyroid and the surrounding lymph nodes.