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Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is expected to announce a run for governor of Arkansas on Monday, according to two people familiar with her plans.
Sanders has toyed with launching a campaign since leaving her post in 2019 and has been quietly planning for the bid over the last year. Current Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson cannot seek re-election in 2022 because of term limits.
Sanders, whose father, Mike Huckabee, was governor of the state from 1996 to 2007, is expected to launch her candidacy Monday.
Sanders took over as press secretary from Sean Spicer, who resigned in 2017. A loyal ally of former President Donald Trump, she had a contentious relationship with the White House press corps and all but did away with official briefings during her 2 1/2-year tenure.
When Trump announced that Sanders would be leaving her position in June 2019, she hadn’t held a briefing in 94 days.
Sanders came under fire weeks before, when the investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election by special counsel Robert Mueller revealed that she made up an assertion about the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.
One day after Comey’s 2017 firing, Sanders said during a briefing that “countless” FBI agents told the White House that they had lost confidence in Comey. But according to Mueller’s report, she told federal investigators that she had no evidence to back up the claim.
Sanders described the false assertion as a “slip of the tongue.”