Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders (R) repeatedly refused to endorse Donald Trump’s third run for president in an interview on Fox Information on Monday.
As a substitute, the previous Trump White Home press secretary ― whose two-year tenure within the position was characterised by her peddling of the then-president’s untruths and protection of his outrageous feedback ― went off on tangents selling her work in her state.
Fox’s Jacqui Heinrich first requested Sanders when she was “going to endorse any individual for 2024.”
Sanders replied:“Look, my focus has been on being governor of Arkansas. I’ve solely been in workplace about 9 months, and I needed to actually put my head down and deal with the issues that had been impacting our state. We simply obtained out of our first common session and particular session a couple of week in the past.”
Trump will doubtless be the nominee and “is the most effective probability” the social gathering has subsequent yr, she stated.
Co-anchor John Roberts phrased the identical query otherwise. He named the GOP governors backing Trump and requested: “Why not be part of the group?”
Sanders claimed her “focus is on Arkansas” and stated she’d “make that call when it is sensible.”
“Is there anyone else you’ll assist?” requested Roberts.
“I’ve solely been governor for about quarter-hour,” Sanders replied, once more swerving the query. “We’ve been in a position to do wonderful and large transformational change for our state. We’re going to proceed to try this over the course of the subsequent a number of months.”
Heinrich requested if Trump had “pressured you in any respect to endorse him?”
“Look, I really like the president, proceed to have an important relationship with him, and I don’t see that altering any time quickly,” Sanders responded.