{"id":15045,"date":"2021-01-27T13:51:48","date_gmt":"2021-01-27T13:51:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=15045"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:16:14","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:16:14","slug":"sarah-sanderss-bid-for-governor-tells-us-a-lot-about-the-state-of-the-gop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/?p=15045","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Sarah Sanders\u2019s bid for governor tells us a lot about the state of the GOP&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/2021\/01\/26\/sarah-sanderss-bid-governor-tells-us-lot-about-state-gop\/\" target=\"_blank\">WaPo<\/a>: &#8220;Sanders is a viable candidate only because of her role with Trump. Only 38 years old, she was a political consultant to numerous Republican campaigns before she joined the Trump White House. She has never run for office, and she has never served in government in a policy-related role. Even though she is the daughter of former governor and two-time presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, she would have been considered a long shot had she not held a nationally prominent role serving Trump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That fact shows how important Trump\u2019s backing is for many in today\u2019s GOP. Trump has already\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/campaign\/535820-sarah-huckabee-sanders-touts-trump-endorsement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">endorsed her<\/a>, touting her support for \u201cborders,\u201d law and order, and the Second Amendment. Even though she is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.swtimes.com\/story\/news\/2021\/01\/25\/arkansas-governor-election-who-running-2022-replace-asa-hutchinson\/6699713002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">running against<\/a>\u00a0two Republicans elected to statewide  office, Lt. Gov. Tim Griffin and Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, Sanders is considered the one to beat because of her national prominence.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: &#8220;Sanders is a viable candidate only because of her role with Trump. Only 38 years old, she was a political consultant to numerous Republican campaigns before she joined the Trump White House. She has never run for office, and she has never served in government in a policy-related role. Even though she is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15045","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15045","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15045"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15045\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15164,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15045\/revisions\/15164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yellowdogwire.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}