Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders and U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton praised former President Donald Trump’s leadership and compassion in short speeches Tuesday night at the Republican National Convention.
Cotton’s remarks in Milwaukee focused on immigration. He criticized President Joe Biden’s immigration policies and said Trump’s policies during his term in office made the United States more secure.
“Our choice is a border secure for everyone or Biden’s open border,” he told the crowd in the FiServ Forum. U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) speaks on stage on the second day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 16, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)
Cotton was one of several speakers Tuesday who contrasted Trump’s border and foreign policies with that of the Biden administration.
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“Donald Trump will secure our border once again,” Cotton said. “Donald Trump will protect America once again.”
Sanders, who was Trump’s press secretary from 2017 to 2019, spoke about how she was vilified by some in the media and denied service at a restaurant, saying that Trump defended her and told her, “They attack you because you’re good at your job.”
“That’s the Donald Trump I know and will always respect,” she said.
“The left doesn’t care about empowering women,” Sanders said, repeating a statement she’s made before that they “can’t even tell you what a woman is.”
“President Trump believes in empowering every American, and that our country is worth fighting for,” she said.
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Under Trump, she said, “America was safer. The world was safer. It felt like the next generation would have a chance at the American Dream. President Trump did the job that Kamala won’t and Joe Biden simply can’t. Every American knows we were better off under President Trump…”
Sanders, elected governor in 2022 at age 40, took a swipe at Biden’s age when she recalled taking her 4-year-old son Huck to “Bring Your Kid to Work Day” at the White House “— much like Jill now drags Joe to Bring Your Husband to Work Day.”
Sanders, whose father Mike Huckabee is a Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor, ended her remarks with religious tones that echoed other speakers.
“We are not called to stand still in the face of great danger. You and I were put on this earth, at this moment in time, to charge boldly ahead. We can’t know what the future holds, but we know who holds the future in His hands.”
Referring to Saturday’s assassination attempt on Trump, she said God spared him “because God isn’t finished with him yet.
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“He isn’t finished with America yet either. With God as our Guide, and President Trump back in the White House, we will show the world that America is the place where freedom reigns and liberty will never die.”
Wynne, 1909: “This picture is of a passenger depot taken while burning.” Indeed, the depot (seen in our previous feature) went up in smoke, lighting up the night sky and large hotels to the right. Firefighters were able to keep the fire from reaching the hotels.
Send questions or comments to Arkansas Postcard Past, P.O. Box 2221, Little Rock, AR 72203
Wynne, 1909: “This picture is of a passenger depot taken while burning.” Indeed, the depot (seen in our previous feature) went up in smoke, lighting up the night sky and large hotels to the right. Firefighters were able to keep the fire from reaching the hotels. Send questions or comments to Arkansas Postcard Past, P.O. Box 2221, Little Rock, AR 72203
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Ray Hanley
Ray Hanley is a retired health care and IT executive, historian, producer of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s “Postcard Past” feature and author of 20 Arkansas history books.
