Arkansas Democrat Gazette: “Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin said he will announce today that he is departing the governor’s race to run for attorney general.
Griffin’s announcement about his decision to change what office he is seeking in the Republican primary in 2022 comes two weeks after Sarah Huckabee Sanders, a former press secretary for the Trump administration, announced her own bid for governor in a campaign video. Former President Donald Trump endorsed Sanders.
Griffin’s decision to bow out of the race he entered in August 2019 leaves Attorney General Leslie Rutledge of Maumelle and Sanders of Little Rock as the two announced Republican candidates for governor. Sanders is the daughter of former Gov. Mike Huckabee, a Republican. No woman has been elected as Arkansas governor.”