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President Biden’s 2023 State of the Union Address
President Joe Biden delivers the 2023 State of the Union Address during a joint session of Congress at the U.S. Capitol.
Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is delivering the GOP response. Here are key things to know about her.
Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is now delivering the Republican response to President Joe Biden’s State of the Union address.
In a statement announcing that Sanders will give the response, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Sanders was a representative for a new generation of Republicans.
She gained national prominence when she served as White House press secretary under former President Donald Trump, but she was no stranger to politics with her father, Republican Mike Huckabee, serving as governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007.
Sanders worked for two years in the George W. Bush administration and later ran her father’s 2008 campaign for the Republican presidential nomination and then was campaign manager for his 2016 White House bid.
She made history last year as the first woman elected as governor of Arkansas.
Within 48 hours of being sworn in as governor, Sanders signed a flurry of executive orders, with one targeting critical race theory “to prohibit indoctrination” in schools and another banning the use of the term “Latinx” in official state documents.
