Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders on May 24 won the Arkansas Republican gubernatorial primary election.
With 26 percent of the districts reporting at 9:19 p.m. ET, Sanders drew more than 80 percent of the vote and was projected as the winner by Decision Desk HQ.
Sanders ran against Francis Washburn, a former conservative talk radio host in the Little Rock area.
Sanders said on the campaign trail that she would protect conservative Arkansas from the radical national agenda pushed by liberal lawmakers in Washington.
She proposed to phase out the state income tax to give taxpayers a pay raise amid inflation, support police to enforce the law, and expand public-funded school choice programs….