Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders will give the Republican response to President Biden’s State of the Union address Tuesday night. Sanders, 40, is the nation’s youngest governor, BBC notes, and is a rising star in the GOP. She is also the daughter of Mike Huckabee, a Baptist minister and political commentator who served as governor of Arkansas from 1996 to 2007 and ran for president in 2008 and 2016.

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Illinois Republican Won’t Attend – Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) plans to stay away from the Capitol Tuesday night and avoid President Biden’s State of the Union address completely, Newsweek reports. Miller cites Biden’s “lies” on energy prices, immigration and the Justice Department’s probe into classified documents discovered at the president’s Wilmington, Delaware, home.

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Club for Growth Snubs Trump – The Club for Growth, an anti-tax organization that spent nearly $150 million in the last two election cycles has invited six potential Republican 2024 presidential candidates to its annual donor event in Florida next month. None of them are former President Trump, The New York Times reports. In a recent Club for Growth internal poll, Florida’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis beat President Biden by three points and Donald J. Trump by seven points. 

The other five Republicans invited are Trump’s UN ambassador and former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, Trump administration Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott and Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin. 

The Koch Brothers’ donor network, led by Americans for Prosperity, also has pivoted from Trump, turning “the page on the past,” with plans to financially support the ex-president’s opponents in next year’s GOP primaries, according to an internal memo viewed by the NYT.

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