“We are ready for a change”, Palin said at a Trump rally in Ames, Iowa, with the candidate by her side.
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Verbal attacks She will help the businessman in particular amongst women with whom Mr Trump has polled poorly as a result of his verbal attacks.
John McCain’s vice presidential running-mate in 2008. Despite having endorsed Ted Cruz during his senate run, the Tea Party darling made a decision to throw her support behind Trump who will seek to capitalize on her popularity with the Tea Party and evangelicals, who make up a large portion of the GOP base. She frequently offers political commentary on cable news channels, has starred in a reality television show and is regularly a featured guest at conservative conventions.
“In a Republican primary, everyone claims to be conservative and voters are pretty cynical”, Cruz told Politico in 2012. However, she added, “after hearing what Cruz is now saying about my mom, in a negative knee-jerk reaction, makes me hope my mom does endorse Trump”. “So regardless of what Sarah decides to do in 2016, I will always be a fan of Sarah Palin”. Palin defended Trump’s remarks, saying that the two were both heroes: McCain for his military service and Trump for criticizing unlawful immigration and the “purposeful destruction of our economy”.
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Palin, the 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee, has long praised Trump. Ted Cruz of Texas for the top spot in the Republican polls there. She has since risen to prominence as one of the most outspoken conservatives in the party.
Helping Trump in Iowa, may not mean much in Utah. She also said Wayne, who died in 1979, would have offered his endorsement, too.
“I’d love that because she really is somebody that knows what’s happening and she’s a special person”, he said.
The Trump campaign press release boasts of the accolades Palin has received in politics – notably, from various figures who have been at war with The Donald for quite a while. Sarah Palin’s son Track Palin was arrested on Monday, January 18, in Wasilla, Alaska.
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Standing in front of a life-size, rifle-toting model of the actor in full cowboy gear, Trump accepted the endorsement of Aissa Wayne at the John Wayne Birthplace Museum in Winterset, Iowa.
