Who is Sarah Huckabee Sanders married to?
FORMER White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders became the first woman to lead Arkansas when she was elected state governor.
Here, we explore her marriage to Bryan Chatfield Sanders.
Who is Sarah Huckabee Sanders married to?
Born and raised in Mission Woods, Kansas, Bryan Chatfield Sanders earned a degree in Campaign Media from Colby College in the early 2000s.
Sanders got his start in politics by serving as the press assistant to Sam Brownback, the former governor of Kansas.
Sanders has worked on other campaigns, including Robert Bentley's run for Alabama governor and Florida-based Ted Yoho's run for the United States Congress.
In 2016, Sanders and his wife, Sarah Huckabee, founded a consulting firm known as Second Street Strategies.
According to their former website, Second Street worked as "general consulting services, including strategy, research, polling, message development, and advertising production and placement for candidates, independent expenditure committees, businesses, and non-profits," per .
Second Street went into an indefinite hold after Sarah began working under former President Donald Trump at the White House.
How did the couple meet?
Sarah Huckabee Sanders met her husband while working together on her father's presidential run in 2008.
Sarah served as the campaign field director and hired Sanders as a media consultant.
After getting engaged in 2009, the couple tied the knot in a ceremony on the Virgin Islands.
Do they have children?
Together, Sarah Huckabee and Bryan Chatfield Sanders share three children.
Their eldest, Scarlett Wiles, was born in 2012.
The following year, the couple welcomed William Huckabee.
In 2015, Sarah gave birth to the pair's third child, George.
Did Sarah Huckabee Sanders win the run for governor?
On January 25, 2021, Sarah Huckabee Sanders announced her run for governor of Arkansas.
Primary elections took place on May 24, 2022, with Sarah locking in her spot as the top Republican candidate.
She faced off against the Democratic select, Chris Jones, in the gubernatorial election on November 8, 2022.
Sarah ultimately beat Jones, securing her spot as Arkansas governor in 2023.
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On February 7, 2023, after President Joe Biden's State of the Union address, Sarah revealed she didn't believe "much of anything" she heard from the President and that "it's time for a change."
She told her audience the Democratic Party, "failed you. You know it, and they know it."