Republican Sarah Huckabee Sanders elected as the first woman governor of Arkansas - NPR

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Former White apartment Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the america First policy Institute Agenda Summit in Washington, D.C., on July 26. Mandel Ngan/AFP by the use of Getty photographs disguise caption

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Former White apartment Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders speaks at the the usa First coverage Institute Agenda Summit in Washington, D.C., on July 26.

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. – Following an unconventional campaign that robotically broke fundraising information, Arkansas voters have chosen former White apartment Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders as their next governor, in keeping with a race name by means of The linked Press.

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Sanders, 40, turns into the primary woman elected to guide the solidly-Republican state and succeeds outgoing time period-confined Gov. Asa Hutchinson. She's because of be inaugurated in January, sixteen years after her father Mike Huckabee left workplace after a ten-yr stint as governor.

Sanders' victory was whatever of a foregone conclusion, regardless of a recent melanoma analysis and an earnest challenge from Democratic nominee Chris Jones. In her crusade, Sanders confronted criticism for no longer focusing on Arkansas-selected considerations and for limiting entry to the clicking in desire of cautiously-scripted rallies and appearances.

in their handiest debate just weeks before Election Day, Jones, a Baptist minister and MIT-educated scientist, referred to as Sanders out on her perceived lack of transparency and clear coverage desires.

"The greater we now have leaders who're unwilling to display up and reply the difficult questions in entrance of crowds that do not consider them and with media that do not agree with them, the extra we'll get faraway from the strength of our democracy," Jones observed.

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