Cotton hires Huckabee’s daughter for Arkansas bid

Rep. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) has added Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the daughter of former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R), as a campaign advisor, his campaign announced Thursday.

Sanders is a major strategist in her own right — she played a major role in her father’s 2008 Iowa caucus win and was the campaign manager on Sen. John Boozman’s (R-Ark.) big 2010 win.

She’s expected to focus on fundraising and coalition-building in the campaign’s closing days.

{mosads}“Sarah Huckabee Sanders brings a wealth of experience and talents to our team, and we are excited to announce that she has joined our campaign. Her experience will help us achieve our ultimate goal — to retire Mark Pryor and elect Tom Cotton as a new, conservative leader for Arkansas,” Cotton campaign manager Justin Brasell said in a statement.

Cotton and the senior Huckabee have not always been on the same page. The congressman won his House primary in 2012 with solid backing from the Club for Growth, a longtime Huckabee antagonist, defeating a former Huckabee staffer whom the former governor had endorsed in the race.