Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders to headline signature South Carolina GOP event

Columbia, SC – The Governor of Arkansas, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, is expected to make the front page of the last items of an event previously presented as the largest annual rally of the Republicans in South Carolina, a traditionally key state to choose the presidential nominees for the GOP, and in which she already has deep relations.

The Sheri Biggs representative of the 3rd district of South Carolina told the Associated Press that Sanders would be the star lecturer of her salvation in Liberty, which should take place on August 18 in Anderson. In an interview last week, Biggs said that she thought the governor “represents what the inhabitants of the 3rd district believed, our moral, just people who work hard and who want to live in peace with their families and maintain our conservative values.”

Historically, a catalyst for the republican hopes of the White House, the South Carolina place offers Sanders a chance to present itself to a large number – generally around 2000 – party activists. It is also a crowd with which President Donald Trump – that she was press secretary during his first administration – remains popular.

Sanders, whose name appears among the presidential contenders in 2028, has made trips to Southern Carolina since her father, a former governor of Arkansas and current American ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee, asked for the appointment of the 2008 GOP. She recently was in other early voting states, including a speech earlier this month at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, an annual event organized by a conservative Christian group.

For years, the occasion of Southern Carolina has been presented as the faith of the representative Jeff Duncan & Freedom BBQ, a fundraising with its re -election campaign. In a region rich in conservatives, it has become a showcase for future competitors of the White House, notably the president of the time, Mike Pence, the senses. Ted Cruz, Tim Scott and Marco Rubio, and the former UN ambassador and Governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley.

The barbecue was turned upside down just a few weeks after the event in 2023, when Duncan’s wife asked for divorce, saying that the Congress member had left him, had sex with a lobbyist and had already been unfaithful during their 35 -year -old wedding. Last year, Duncan chose not to ask for a re -election from an eighth term, after the decrease in his reputation for his reputation for the conservative family.

In his first political race, Biggs – nurse practitioner and officer of the National Air Guard – beat a main opponent supported by Trump last year. Mark Burns, a black pastor who has been alongside Trump for almost a decade, had presented himself without success to the congress twice before.

Biggs easily won the general elections of the district, which has been in the hands of the GOP since the Republican Lindsey Graham, who is now looking for his fifth term from the American Senate, won it in 1994. Six months after her first mandate, Biggs said she knew that she wanted a district event to the unification of her own candidates, as well as the one who could Potential presidential candidates of the GOP to ask the request of candidates to ask his voters.

“I want people to know that I am here to serve this neighborhood, which means to make me available and be in front and accessible to our voters, and to hear their needs,” she said. “I am here to serve the district, and that does not mean that all those who voted for me.”

In some respects, the Biggs event will be familiar. It takes place in the same place as Duncan’s Barbecue, a civic center in Anderson, and there will always be 1 $ tickets for the agents of the police and the first stakeholders. As for the menu, Biggs said that it would go away from the barbecue buffet line, bacon beans and rollers, with a dinner with treaty, “more than one dinner seated.”

“It’s not until I don’t think the barbecue was great, I just want my own identity,” said Biggs. “I want people to realize that it’s a new ball game, and I want to go from the front of myself.”

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