CNN’s Acosta Reacts to Huckabee Sanders Governor’s Proposal: ‘This Campaign Will Be Lit by Gas’

CNN’s Acosta Reacts to Huckabee Sanders Governor’s Proposal: ‘This Campaign Will Be Lit by Gas’

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CNN anchor Jim AcostaJames (Jim) AcostaThe Hill’s 12:30 Report: Sights and sounds of Inauguration Day Women lead coverage of major White House networks in the early Biden era. CNN expanding Jake Tapper’s show to two hours, shortening Wolf Blitzer’s show MORE on Monday criticized the former White House press secretary Sarah HuckabeeRepublican Sarah SandersHouse condemns anti-Trump celebrities during impeachment listening to Sarah Sanders about Trump’s reported criticisms of war dead: “Those comments didn’t happen” Sarah Sanders memoir says Trump joked that she should be with Kim Jong Un MORE Sanders for attacking the media when announcing his intention to run for governor of Arkansas.

“I faced the media, the radical left and its culture of cancellation, and I won,” Sanders said in a video announcing the launch of his campaign. “As governor, I will be your voice and I will never let them silence you.”

Acosta responded to her statement in a tweet.

“Cancel culture? Did she win? Sarah tried to ban me from WH (using an adulterated video) and lost in federal court. The federal judge appointed by Trump was not believing her lies,” he said. “This campaign is going to be lit by gas.”

Acosta served as CNN Chief Correspondent at the White House during Sanders for more than two years as a former President TrumpMore than two-thirds of Americans approve of the response to Biden’s coronavirus: Sarah Huckabee Sanders poll to run for president of Mexico presents positive tests for COVID-19 MOREthe press secretary for, arguing with her and her top advisers frequently during briefings to the media.

After a particularly combative exchange between Trump and Acosta in 2018, Sanders revoked Acosta’s press credential. The chain sued under the First Amendment and Acosta’s press badge was restored a few weeks later.

Sanders left the White House in 2019 and CNN announced earlier this month that Acosta would be transferred from his White House obligations to a new position behind the anchor’s desk.

Sanders, whose father, Mike Huckabee, previously served as Arkansas governor, said his campaign will reflect his ex-boss’s agenda at the White House.

“My opponents will do everything in their power to destroy me,” she said. “But I will not apologize for who I am or who I am fighting for … I will not bow to the radical left. Not now. Never.”

Acosta, in a book published in 2019, accused Trump and his top advisers of injecting dangerous anti-media sentiment into the national policy debate.

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