Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders opened the national tour for her new book, “Unapologetic: Clarity and Conviction in a World Gone Crazy,” on Wednesday evening at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, Calif.

The book was released Tuesday. Mrs. Sanders, the first woman to serve as governor of Arkansas, won a second four-year term on Nov. 3 with nearly 54 percent of the vote.

“We won because we worked together to accomplish good things for the people of our state,” Mrs. Sanders said. “We won because we did not abandon or back down from any of our principles. We won because we implemented strong conservative policy, and the people who we were elected to serve benefited by the work that we had done, and we did not apologize for it, we leaned in.”

She also highlighted other Republican victories in Arkansas, including Sen. Tom Cotton’s reelection and wins by all four of the state’s sitting U.S. House members, who are Republicans.

When audience members asked whether she would consider running for president, Mrs. Sanders kept her focus on Arkansas. “I’m honored that I just won reelection,” she said, drawing laughter from the crowd. She added, “I found that if you do a really good job and focus on what’s in front of you, the rest of the plan will figure itself out. And I’m very hopeful that I’ll get to do the job that I have for the next four years and do a great job for the people of Arkansas.”

A large portion of her speech, given on Veterans Day, was a reading from the book about Chief Petty Officer Adam Brown, a Navy SEAL from Hot Springs who was killed in Afghanistan in 2010 and who received the Arkansas Medal of Freedom, which Mrs. Sanders created in 2024. “What is God telling us through Adam’s story? That no matter how far we have fallen, we are not beyond His grace,” she said.

In the book, Mrs. Sanders writes about her 2022 campaign for governor and the Arkansas LEARNS Act, her signature school choice policy, which she also discussed at the event. She served two years as White House press secretary during President Trump’s first term, and in the book she calls the first year of his second term “a remarkable success.”

Mrs. Sanders was scheduled to speak Thursday at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum in Simi Valley, Calif. The tour also includes stops in Dallas, Washington, Chicago and West Palm Beach, Fla.