<p class="speakable">Republican candidate and former White House Press Secretary&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/sarah-sanders" _mce_href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/sarah-sanders" target="_blank">Sarah Huckabee Sanders</a>&nbsp;is projected to win the governor’s race. She replaces term-limited Republican Governor Asa Hutchinson. Sanders will be Arkansas' first female governor.</p> <p class="speakable">Sanders was the White House Press Secretary under former&nbsp;<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump" _mce_href="https://www.foxnews.com/category/person/donald-trump" target="_blank">President Trump</a>&nbsp;from 2017 to 2019.</p> <p>She defeats Democrat Chris Jones, who is a nuclear engineer and ordained Baptist minister.</p> <div class="ad-container desktop ad-h-50 ad-w-300"></div> <p>After Sanders voted in Little Rock on Tuesday, she told reporters that she doesn't think she ran a divisive campaign and focused on tax cuts as well as other issues that could unite Arkansas residents</p>