Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders has some ambitious political plans, reports Axios.
In what it bills as a “scoop,” the political website quotes unnamed sources as saying Sanders “is likely to hit the speaking circuit and write a book after leaving the White House on Friday, and she’ll move to Arkansas in August as the prelude to a possible 2022 run for governor.”
The state’s Republican governor, Asa Hutchinson, can’t seek re-election in 2020.
“We hear the book will be billed as an account of her life in politics and experience inside the Trump administration, which she sees as very positive. Sanders plans to relax with her family in July, and she will help with Trump’s re-election campaign,” Axios says.
“Sanders appears to be in an enviable position, with the backing of Trump, who’s popular in the state, and political connections that go back to her dad Mike Huckabee’s more than 10 years as governor,” says Axios, citing Andrew DeMillo of the Associated Press, reporting from Little Rock.
But it might not be so easy for the woman who has forcefully voiced Trump’s policies since the spring of 2017.
“Democrats relish the idea of a Sanders run, saying it would bring national money and attention to a race that may otherwise be written off,” Axios says.