Former Press Secretary for former President Trump Sarah Huckabee Sanders is running for the governor of Arkansas, and is off to a flying start:
Republican gubernatorial candidate Sarah Huckabee Sanders raised more than $4.8 million during the first quarter of the year, her campaign announced Thursday.
Despite not entering the race until late January, Sanders outraised her Republican primary opponent, Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge, nearly 25-to-1 during that 90-day period.
Nationwide, Sanders received money from 34,700 donors. The campaign said it had cash on hand of about $3.9 million as of March 31.
More than two-thirds of Sanders’ first-quarter money came from out of state. Roughly four out of every five contributors live outside Arkansas. [Arkansas Democrat-Gazette]
Which suggests that Sanders is getting paid off for her soul here.
But will Arkansas voters also reward her? The fact that most of that money is from outside the state does suggest she may not be as popular as she might wish.
A problem with politics is information friction: most voters only have limited vision on their candidates. How many will remember Sanders and her abuse of her position?
We’ll find out in the future.
