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Sarah Huckabee Sanders, Governor of Arkansas

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Republican · Governor of Arkansas · Arkansas · Spectrum score +69

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Sarah Huckabee Sanders is Governor of Arkansas in Arkansas. Political positions and ideology score +69 (Far right). Sanders is the last name.

College
Ouachita Baptist University, B.A. 2004
Spouse
Bryan Sanders (m. 2010)
Children
Three
Résumé
  • Governor of Arkansas · 2023–
  • White House Press Secretary · 2017–2019
  • Campaign / political consultant · 2004–2017
Net worth
$3.5M
Salary
$168,439

Statutory state pay · 2025–26

Before office
$400K
2026 raised
—
Years in office
9

Where Sarah stands on the spectrum

Sarah Huckabee Sanders scores +69 on Spectrum’s left–right line (far right), right of center on the economy and conservative on social issues. The number is modeled from twelve issue positions and the public record — not a poll and not a party label.

Composite +69 · Far right · economic +70 · social +68 · authoritarian +40

Confidence 83. How we calculate scores →

Background & record

Sanders is the last name. The file is a press-shop graduate who inherited a state machine, a book, and an education culture war that national donors understand better than Little Rock does.

Finances

Modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit of any household.

Net worth

$3.5M

+775% since taking office

Disclosure + book, 2025

Before office$400K
Now$3.5M

Press secretary to governor. Book and the Huckabee machine. Not Tyson-rich, not poor.

Money in · 2026 cycle

Raised
$0
Cash on hand
$0

Top industries

  • Conservative PACs
  • Publishing
  • Arkansas business

Stock holdings

Index / retirement funds

Book and the Huckabee machine. Funds.

Disclosure midpoint, 2024–25 · STOCK Act ranges, not an audit

  • VTI

    Vanguard Total Stock Market

    Joint

    $100K–$500K

  • VXUS

    Vanguard Total International

    Joint

    $30K–$150K

Sum of ranges $130K–$650K · midpoint $390K

X sentiment

Last 7 days

Odds

Polymarket · Kalshi

Implied probability from open contracts. Real money, not a poll. Updates while you sit here.

Live wire

Live · checked just now

New articles land here as they publish. Checking about every 12 seconds.

Conflicts

  • Dynasty (Mike Huckabee) as the actual party in Arkansas.
  • Education fights as a national product.

Issue detail

−100 left pole · +100 right pole

Economic
+70
Social
+68
Authoritarian
+40
Confidence
83
  • Taxes & spending+82

    Lower taxes, smaller fiscal footprint

  • Health care+62

    Private insurance markets, fewer mandates

  • Climate & energy+70

    Energy abundance, fewer climate mandates

  • Business regulation+70

    Deregulation and lighter administrative state

  • Labor & wages+58

    Flexible labor markets, right-to-work

  • Immigration+68

    Tighter borders, more deportations

  • Abortion+72

    Restrictions or bans, fetal personhood

  • Guns+78

    Broad Second Amendment, fewer federal limits

  • Crime & policing+66

    More policing, longer sentences, less bail reform

  • Schools & speech+80

    Choice, against gender/DEI curricula

  • Defense & alliances+74

    Hard power, high defense spending, deterrence

  • Civil liberties+46

    Order, platform / campus / speech restrictions for security or morality

No roll-call first dimension on file — issues only.

Compass

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Sources

  • State record
  • Wealth and fundraising are modeled midpoints from public disclosures — not an audit.
  • College, family, and résumé are public-record facts, not a campaign bio.

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Updated August 2026.