President Trump Talks Paper Ballots
Calls Out Governor Sanders at the White House
President Trump on Friday called out Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders by name during his remarks to the bipartisan Governors Working Session at the White House during The National Governors Association winter meetings.
Getting top billing from the speech was the clash between President Trump and Maine Governor Janet Mills over her state's insistence on ignoring the President's executive order banning biological men from women's sports. (The civil rights division of the U.S. Department of Education has since began investigating Maine’s Department of Education as a violation of federal anti-discrimination law.)
But Arkansas's conservative voter base was energized to hear the President reinforce his campaign themes of same-day voting, voter ID, proof of citizenship, and paper ballots as he looked directly at Governor Sanders several times (see the entire five minutes on paper ballots below).
In the first 30 days since he took office, President Trump's dizzying avalanche of executive orders have not only underscored his campaign promises and laid the foundation for generational change in our government but have energized and reassured conservative voters on many different issues that are tearing our country apart.
President Trump's comments were especially welcomed in Arkansas after the last couple of weeks saw influential state Senator Kim Hammer and state Representative David Ray push through a raft of legislation that significantly chills citizen-led referendums/initiatives by setting up numerous mandates and restrictions on the signature gathering/petition process. This came after substantial election/paper ballot legislation Hammer successfully spearheaded during the 94th General Assembly in 2023.
Hammer announced in January his plans to run in 2026 for Secretary of State, the Arkansas constitutional officer in charge of elections.
At Saturday’s annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC), paper ballots came up again as organizer Mercedes Schlapp interviewed Governor Sanders: