Sarah Huckabee Sanders, former White House press secretary under President Donald Trump, has been elected the governor of her home state of Arkansas.
Sanders, who had been heavily favored to win the race, defeated her Democrat opponent, Chris Jones, with over 62.9 percent of the vote.
The victory makes Sanders the first female governor of Arkansas. She joins other female Republican governors including Gov. Kate Ivey of Alabama, Gov. Kim Reynolds of Iowa, and Gov. Kristi Noem of South Dakota.
It is also the first time a father and daughter have served as governor for the solid Republican state. Sanders is the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee. He served as governor of Arkansas from 1996 through 2007 and ran as a Republican presidential nominee in 2008 and 2016. Sanders had previously appeared in ads for her father and worked on his campaigns….