
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Nationalist
Republican
Governor
Arkansas
Current Position: Governor of Arkansas
Running For: Governor
Policy Positions
Economic Policy
- Against higher taxes on the wealthy; supports phasing out state income tax
Health Care
- Against COVID vaccination and masking mandates
Education
- For school choice and education vouchers; supports expanding education freedom and parental choice
- Against teaching critical race theory in schools; signed LEARNS Act banning it
- Against cell phones in schools; implemented bell-to-bell ban on cell phones in schools
- For eliminating age verification and parental consent requirements for workers under 16
Environment
- Against Green New Deal; opposes radical environmental policies
Civil Rights
- Against abortion rights; won't support exceptions in case of rape or incest
- Against affirmative action; supports ending affirmative action to judge people by character
- Against transgender treatment for minors; supports prohibition of transgender treatment for minors
- Against use of term 'Latinx' in government; banned it from official state use on first day in office
- For anti-abortion monuments; signed bill allowing privately funded 'monument to the unborn' on Capitol grounds
Immigration & Foreign Affairs
- For enhanced penalties on violent illegal immigrants; opposes catch and early release of violent repeat offenders
- Against pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants; describes some immigrants as 'worse than animals'
- Against sanctuary cities; pledges to defund sanctuary cities
- For family separation immigration policy; defended it as 'very Biblical to enforce the law'
- For divesting state resources from Communist China; views China as an adversary
Public Safety
- For Second Amendment rights; supports absolute right to gun ownership for family protection
- For death penalty by nitrogen hypoxia; signed law making Arkansas fifth state to allow execution by nitrogen hypoxia