
Arkansas' newly-elected Republican governor, Sarah Huckabee Sanders — not so long ago the spokeswoman for Donald Trump's White House — has been on quite the tear in her first 100 days in office. The chosen voice of the GOP's State of the Union rebuttal. The quintessential Southern heiress and political nepotism beneficiary. The awkward Trump leftover, who was repeatedly caught lying to reporters from her former perch in the Brady briefing room.
Despite all that, and her advocacy for a number of deeply unpopular policies, Sanders is the second-most popular among newly elected governors in the latest Morning Consult poll.