Sarah Huckabee Sanders may no longer be in the White House, but that doesn’t mean she’s stopped lying on behalf of Donald Trump. The president “reads more than anybody I know,” she said on a Fox News panel Sunday. He is also, she told the New York Times, “fun to be around;” in fact she “loved being around the president.” Alright then.

As with ex-U.N. ambassador Nikki Haley, whose book tour was essentially a long-form homage to Trump, Sanders may have good reason to cozy up to the president. After months of rumors that she’s considering a run for Arkansas governor, she appeared to more or less confirm her ambitions to the Times. “There are two types of people who run for office,” she said in an interview published Monday. “People that are called and people that just want to be a senator or governor. I feel like I’ve been called.”

Sanders has never exactly been subtle in her aims, but the Times interview was her most blatant hint yet that she‘s planning to capitalize on her Trump loyalist cred to run for office. When she left her post earlier this year in the president’s good graces, Trump expressed hope that she would make a go of it in her home state. “She would be fantastic,” he tweeted. While Trump is known for talking out of his ass, it quickly became apparent that this was more than bluster. Reports emerged suggesting Sanders was “extremely serious” about potentially seeking the seat her father, Mike Huckabee, once occupied, and in August she launched a personal website that looked a hell of a lot like a campaign site. In suggesting to the Times that she’s somehow been “called” to run—by Trump? By a higher power? Both?—she’s all but announcing a campaign launch.

Sanders, of course, would be a formidable contender in a governor’s race given Arkansas’ conservative political leanings, her name recognition as the former governor’s daughter, and her high-profile tenure in the Trump administration. Without experience in elected office, she’ll likely have to lean pretty hard on her close association with Trump—a relationship she will continue to fortify with a book about her “positive” experience in the administration, and the praise she lavishes on her old boss as a contributor to his favorite network, Fox News. That may bring unwanted criticism—“I don’t like being called a liar,” she told the Times—but likely solidifies her as an avatar for the president in deep red Arkansas. “I’m just excited to have people clap when I come up to a podium,” she said at a dinner in the state recently, per the Times. “All I can say is thank God I’m back in Arkansas.”

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