Sarah Sanders is a very respectable campaign manager and a political figure who became a spokeperson for American President Donald Trump in the summer 2017.
She is known as the daughter of a famous politician Mike Huckabee who was a Governer and was running for a President. He is also a Christian minister.
Early years
She was born as Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee on August 13, 1982, in a town called Hope in Arkansas, United States.
Sarah is of English, German, Irish and even Scottish descent but nobody confirmed.
She wasn’t the only child in the family but she was the only daughter. She is the youngest of her two brothers who are named John Mark and David.
Her father is named Mike Huckabee and her mother is Janet Huckabee.
After she graduated at Little Rock Central High School in the town Little Rock in Arkansas, she decided to continue her education in college.
She enrolled the Ouachita Baptist University in Arkadelphia in Arkansas. It was the same university her father went to.
She was a very active student who got elected as the president of the student body.
As for her political opinion she was involved in the work of Republican organizations.
Sarah has graduated in 2004, and gained a degree in political science and mass communications as her top studies.
Since her father was very much involved in the political life of the United States, Sarah was surrounded with politics and politicians from her early age.
It is one of the reasons she has chosen political science as her major in college.
Career development
She has assisted her father Mike in his campaign for the United States Senate in 1992.
In 2002, her father who was the Governer of Arkansas, started his campaign for his reelection. She was the coordinator of his campaign.
She was hired as a staff member for congressional affairs in the area of education during the mandate of President George W. Bush.
The same year, she was proclaimed as a field coordinator in his presidential campaign in the state of Ohio.
Sarah was one of the founders of a consulting business aimed at Republican campaigns. The organization was called “Second Street Strategies” and it was settled in her hometowm Little Rock.
In 2008 she was the main director of the presidential campaign of her father Mike.
In 2012, she advised Tim Pawlenty in his campaign for president.
She was the leading person in a lot of senator campaigns and was an executive director of Huck Pack, her father’s political organization devoted to promotion of conservative ideas and principles.
Sarah was also hired for some non-political agendas such as leading a campaign for an organization focused on ending poverty all around the world.
In 2016, she has joined a presidental campaign of Donald Trump and was the main person for communications.
After Donald Trump won the presidental elections she gained a place in the new White House administration.
She became the deputy Press Secretary.
During May 2017, she often replaced Trump’s Press Secretary Sean Spicer.
She was so good at her job (especially connected to the James Comey controversial dismiss) that people started guessing that she will be the new Press Secretary.
She was one of the people who approved President’s decision to fire James Comey from his job as the director of FBI.
She was questioned by the investigators in this issue and she defended President Trump eagerly.
She critized media a lot, often claiming that they are on a hunt for Trump but they cannot win.
She has claimed that the reporters spread fake news, trying to make President less serious and mock him.
She defended him when he was accused of spreading tolerance for physical violence, if needed.
In the summer of 2017, Spicer resigned and Sarah was offered a job as the White House press secretary which she gladly accepted.
She was the third woman in this role.
“I’m an honest person” is one of her statements that she stated while she was asked about certain controversions about Trump.
She was often caught in lies while defending the president but they were always made to look like they weren’t said on purpose.
Sarah mostly claimed that she based her story on the “best information” she could get at that moment.
As for President Trump’s policy of separating children from parents in immigrant familes, she called it biblical.
Due to her political success, she was named on the Time’s “40 under 40” list.
Personal life
In 2008, during she helped her father with his presidental campaign, she met her husband Bryan.
They got married in Cruz Bay on Virgin Islands in 2010. He was a media consultant on het father’s presidental campaign.
They fell in love and decided to make it official.
They have three children together: two sons and a daughter. They are named Scarlett, George and William.
One of the biggest criticist of Trump’s goverment is an actor Peter Henry Fonda who often uses sexual and hate conotations in his tweets about them.
He stated that someone should kidnap Sara’s children so she could experience the same treatment as the immigrants who get separated from their children on Trumps’ orders.
Sarah often says that she is glad that she is the first working mother ever to be on the position of Press Secretary.
Quick summary
Full name: Sarah Elizabeth Huckabee Sanders
Date of birth: August 13, 1982
Birthplace: Hope, Arkansas, United States
Age: 36
Profession: political adviser, campaign manager, White House press secretary
Height: 1,63 m
Weight: 72 kgs
Net Worth: $400,000
