Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R-AR) weighed in on Sunday on a possible future presidential bid — and on whether or not her father, who ran for president himself in 2008 and 2016, would support her.
Sanders, who previously served as White House Press Secretary during President Donald Trump’s first term, joined host Dana Bash on CNN’s “State of the Union” to reflect on the Democrat Party’s sweep of the 2026 midterm elections and what she expected to see from the Republican Party in the future.
“When I first met you, Governor, we were in Des Moines and you were helping run a small but formidable Huckabee for President headquarters in Des Moines, that was for your father, Mike Huckabee’s 2008 presidential campaign,” Bash began. “He won the Iowa caucuses, by the way. Would your dad like to see you launch your own bid for the White House?”
“I don’t know,” Sanders laughed. “Given the fact that he knows what that means, I’m not sure that he would wish that on me in some cases, but he ran, as you know, a — just a bootstrap campaign in 2008, came from behind — a victory that changed the course of his adult life after that in a significant way and gave him a major platform to talk about is...