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Sarah Huckabee Sanders Republicans need to draw a stark contrast with Democrats · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: While Tuesday's loss has many people rethinking party strategy.
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  Speaker 2: Some wins give hope to a lot of people in
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  Speaker 2: the party. Take a look at this.
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  Speaker 3: I ran for governor because I believe Arkansas needs a
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  Speaker 3: leader with the courage and the conviction to do what's right,
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  Speaker 3: not what's politically convenient. a leader who will not retreat,
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  Speaker 3: not surrender, and not bow down to the radical left.
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  Speaker 3: It means standing up for things that matter. It means
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  Speaker 3: never backing down when we are afraid of the critics
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  Speaker 3: and the noise that comes at us.
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  Speaker 1: Now, Sarah Sanders held the governor's seat in an Arkansas
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  Speaker 1: in-between states hit by the blue wave. So what does
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  Speaker 1: she think about what happened? For starters, she is staying
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  Speaker 1: away from the Trump blame game and saying that each race.
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  Speaker 2: Needs their own autopsy.
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  Speaker 1: And she speaks more on her fight as governor and
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  Speaker 1: values and the vision in the future of her new book, Unapologetic.
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  Speaker 2: She joins us now. Governor, good to have you. Welcome back.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 1: There's always going to be that circular firing squad, finger
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  Speaker 1: pointing mentality, which I don't think is very productive, but
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  Speaker 1: it's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: It always does.
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  Speaker 1: But introspection, self-reflection, analysis is dead on accurate and needed.
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  Speaker 2: Let's talk about it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, there's no question that Tuesday was a tough
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  Speaker 3: night across the country for Republicans. But I'm glad that
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  Speaker 3: here in my home state of Arkansas, we were able
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  Speaker 3: to buck the trend. We focused on the issues that
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  Speaker 3: really matter. We spent a lot of time talking about education,
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  Speaker 3: about public safety, about affordability and actually delivering on those things.
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  Speaker 3: One of the things that I talked, not only talked
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  Speaker 3: a lot about, but actually did was cut taxes four
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  Speaker 3: times in the last four years, knocking 25% off of
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  Speaker 3: my state income tax, getting rid of the state grocery tax,
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  Speaker 3: and making sure that the quality of life in Arkansas
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  Speaker 3: was not only high, but affordable. We didn't back away
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  Speaker 3: from those issues. We leaned into it. And it paid
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  Speaker 3: off in a big way. And I won by one
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  Speaker 3: of the largest margins of any Republican governor anywhere in
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  Speaker 3: the country on Tuesday night. Republicans have to draw a
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  Speaker 3: sharp contract with Democrats. We have to remind people the
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  Speaker 3: difference of the party who supports freedom and will fight
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  Speaker 3: for it and defend it and make sure that our
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  Speaker 3: kids inherit it, vs. the Democrats who want to push
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  Speaker 3: this crazy socialist idea of our country, and we cannot
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  Speaker 3: allow that to happen. And I don't think we did
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  Speaker 3: a good enough job drawing that contrast over the last
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  Speaker 3: several weeks leading into Election Day.
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  Speaker 1: Then how do you explain Texas and Governor Abbott, who
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  Speaker 1: I think did a great job in the.
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  Speaker 3: State, Texas is, it is honestly heartbreaking to see. Governor
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  Speaker 3: Abbott has done a phenomenal job. He was one of
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  Speaker 3: the leaders in the country on helping secure the border,
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  Speaker 3: has done a great job over the last 12 years
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  Speaker 3: on delivering for the people of Texas. We have seen
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  Speaker 3: the entire dynamic of that state shift. And I think
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  Speaker 3: there's going to be a lot of buyer's remorse, because
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  Speaker 3: people are going to see how much more difficult and
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  Speaker 3: how much harder life is under Democrat leadership. If you
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  Speaker 3: don't believe me, just look at what's happened on the
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  Speaker 3: West Coast in places like California and Oregon and Washington,
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  Speaker 3: where they have broken economies and people are fleeing those states.
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  Speaker 3: And moving to places like Arkansas and Texas, I think
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  Speaker 3: in January, you're going to have a lot of people
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  Speaker 3: who wish they had elected the freedom-loving, Christ-centered people that
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  Speaker 3: you had, like Governor Abbott, that were leading the state
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  Speaker 3: of Texas.
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  Speaker 1: I believe the Iranian actions were correct and necessary, and
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  Speaker 1: it's going to be great for our kids and grandkids.
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  Speaker 2: It went on much longer than I think anybody thought
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  Speaker 2: it would.
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  Speaker 1: And there was a lot of vacillating back and forth
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  Speaker 1: about whether or not they were going to obliterate or
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  Speaker 1: negotiate a deal. And that back and forth, I think,
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  Speaker 1: did become confusing. And it went on longer than people
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  Speaker 1: wanted it to go on. Then you've got the economy.
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  Speaker 1: I think the right policies have been adopted. I think
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  Speaker 1: we're seeing signs of a recovery. but we're not there yet.
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  Speaker 1: And until people feel it, it won't.
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  Speaker 2: Be a reality for them.
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  Speaker 1: Is there a national lesson to learn in that?
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  Speaker 3: I think you're absolutely right, Sean. The president was right
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  Speaker 3: in defending American interests and making sure that Iran does
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  Speaker 3: not have a nuclear weapon. I think sometimes in leadership
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  Speaker 3: and in a decision like that, You have to do
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  Speaker 3: what is right, not what is politically convenient. And that's
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  Speaker 3: what the president did. And that was a really difficult thing,
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  Speaker 3: but he was right to do it. And on affordability,
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  Speaker 3: this is a president who fought for and delivered the
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  Speaker 3: largest tax cut in American history. He's continued to do
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  Speaker 3: things that make life better. As you said, the economy
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  Speaker 3: is on a rebound after the Biden administration and Bidenflation.
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  Speaker 3: This president has leaned into that space and continued to
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  Speaker 3: lead on those issues One of the things that is
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  Speaker 3: so crazy is, Democrats love to talk about affordability, but
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  Speaker 3: everything that they do destroys our economy. You don't build
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  Speaker 3: a strong economy by giving everything away. They say that
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  Speaker 3: they want to help our farmers, yet they're the ones
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  Speaker 3: holding up the farm bill. They say that they want
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  Speaker 3: to make health care more affordable, except they're the ones
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  Speaker 3: that are preventing that from happening. They say they want
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  Speaker 3: to put more money back in people's pockets. They all
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  Speaker 3: voted against tax cuts. Everything that they say that they
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  Speaker 3: want to deliver on affordability is the exact opposite of
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  Speaker 3: what they are actually doing.
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  Speaker 2: Well, let me ask this.
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  Speaker 3: And I think you're going to see a lot of, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Reagan, Clinton, Obama had horrible midterms. Two years later, they
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  Speaker 1: all come back and win.
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  Speaker 2: Do you see that pattern holding up here?
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  Speaker 3: Absolutely. I think that once people feel the disappointment and
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  Speaker 3: the destruction of Democrat policies, you're going to see a
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  Speaker 3: major shift. And Republicans have to be, I think, really
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  Speaker 3: aggressive in leaning into drawing the contrast and making the
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  Speaker 3: case for what it looks like under Republican leadership versus
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  Speaker 3: Democrat leadership. But people are going to feel that at home.
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  Speaker 3: They're the cost of Democrat policies will be more than
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  Speaker 3: most American families can handle. And I think we'll see
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  Speaker 3: a huge shift back in the next election cycle.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Sarah, thank you. We appreciate it.