36 Facts About Sarah Sanders

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Sarah Sanders was the 31st White House press secretary, serving under President Donald Trump from 2017 to 2019.

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Sarah Sanders previously worked on the election campaigns of her father, Arkansas governor and presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, and later served as a senior advisor on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign.

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Sarah Sanders is the Republican nominee in the 2022 Arkansas gubernatorial election.

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4.

Sarah Sanders hosted fewer press conferences than any of the 13 previous White House press secretaries.

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5.

In June 2019, Trump tweeted that Sarah Sanders would be leaving her role as press secretary at the end of the month.

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6.

Sarah Sanders secured the Republican nomination in May 2022, and is widely expected to win the general election.

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Sarah Sanders was involved in her father's first campaign for the United States Senate in 1992.

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8.

Sarah Sanders called her "doggone tough" and "fearless" due to having grown up with two brothers.

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Sarah Sanders was a field coordinator for her father's 2002 reelection campaign for governor of Arkansas.

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10.

Sarah Sanders was a regional liaison for congressional affairs at the U S Department of Education under President George W Bush.

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11.

Sarah Sanders worked as a field coordinator for President Bush's re-election campaign in Ohio in 2004.

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12.

Sarah Sanders is a founding partner of Second Street Strategies in Little Rock, Arkansas, a general consulting services provider for Republican campaigns.

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13.

Sarah Sanders worked on national political campaigns and on campaigns for federal office in Arkansas.

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14.

Sarah Sanders was national political director for her father's 2008 presidential campaign.

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15.

Sarah Sanders was a senior adviser to Tim Pawlenty in his 2012 presidential run.

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16.

Sarah Sanders was involved in the campaigns of both U S senators from Arkansas, managing John Boozman's 2010 campaign and serving as an adviser to Tom Cotton's 2014 election.

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17.

Sarah Sanders was national campaign manager for the ONE Campaign, an international organization aimed at ending global poverty and preventable diseases.

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18.

Sarah Sanders stood in for Spicer during the dismissal of James Comey and the controversy following it.

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19.

Sarah 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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20.

Sarah Sanders responded by saying, "Yeah, we've been clear on that since the beginning, and the President has spoken on it, " without elaborating.

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21.

Sarah Sanders defended Trump's position, “Whether it's a real video, the threat is real and that is what the president is talking about, that's what the president is focused on, is dealing with those real threats and those are real no matter how you're looking at it.

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22.

In February 2018, when Rob Porter left the White House over domestic abuse allegations, Sarah 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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However, after FBI director Christopher Wray testified that the FBI had finished and submitted its security-clearance investigation on Porter to the White House earlier in July 2017, Sarah Sanders instead claimed that it was instead the White House's personnel security office's investigation that was ongoing, which contradicted her earlier statement that the clearance process "doesn't operate within the White House".

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Sarah 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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25.

In March 2018, Sarah Sanders said regarding the Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal, "there was no knowledge of any payments from the president" to Daniels.

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26.

In mid-June 2018, when questioned on the Trump administration's family separation policy which resulting in the separation of migrant children from their parents at the Mexico–United States border, Sarah Sanders falsely blamed Democrats for the policy while claiming "it is very biblical" to implement the policy.

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27.

In July 2018, Sarah Sanders said the Trump White House would discuss allowing Russian agents to interrogate former US Ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul.

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28.

The following day, in order to justify the White House's actions, Sarah Sanders released a video of the moment the intern tried to grab the microphone from Acosta's hand.

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29.

In January 2019 Sarah Sanders said on the Christian Broadcasting Network that she thinks "God calls all of us to fill different roles at different times, and I think that he wanted Donald Trump to become president".

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30.

The article centers on whether Sarah Sanders meets the State Constitution's residency requirement of seven years.

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31.

Sarah Sanders handily won the Republican primary and is set to face off against Democratic nominee Chris Jones in the general election.

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32.

Sarah Sanders had lied about President Trump being in charge of a statement regarding the Trump Tower meeting.

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33.

Sarah 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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34.

Sarah Sanders was the campaign's field director, and Sanders was hired as a media consultant.

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35.

Sarah Sanders was diagnosed with papillary thyroid cancer in September 2022.

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36.

Sarah Sanders underwent surgery to remove her thyroid and the surrounding lymph nodes.

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