Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump received a key endorsement Tuesday from conservative heavyweight Sarah Palin, giving the billionaire businessman a potential boost with some voters less than two…
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Donald Trump last night (Tuesday) prompted fevered speculation among his supporters that he had secured the endorsement of Sarah Palin in his quest to become the Republican presidential nominee.
According to the statement, via CBS, police said officers were called to a residence in Wasilla for a disturbance report at about 10 p.m. Monday, where they encountered Track Palin.
“I think a lot about the Department of Energy, because energy is my baby, oil and gas and minerals, those things that God has dumped on this part of the earth for mankind’s use, instead of relying on unfriendly foreign nations for us to import their resources”, she said, adding that her ultimate aim would to get rid of the agency. “Without her support, I wouldn’t be in the Senate”.
Palin was scheduled to appear at a Iowa State University campus in Ames late Tuesday afternoon with Trump to stump for the former reality show host.
As Cruz and Trump fight for first place in Iowa with just 13 days to go before voters make their choice, Cruz is seeking to portray Trump as a false conservative and shine light on his history as a Democrat before his turn towards conservative politics later in life.
Palin joined Trump for a campaign event in Iowa today, and will also be with him for several more tomorrow, according to a statement from Trump’s campaign.
Sarah Palin’s nod to Donald Trump is seen as a snub to conservative Senator Ted Cruz, who is nec … “I would not be in the United States Senate were it not for Gov. Sarah Palin…”
Since Arizona Sen. John McCain selected her as his running mate in 2008 – a move that catapulted her from obscurity to national political stardom – Palin has cultivated a role as a kingmaker for tea party candidates in the GOP. It’s been far likelier in the past to pick a Republican nomination loser like Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum, than crown the eventual victor. Her memoir, published in 2009, sold more than two million copies and was one of the fastest-selling political books in history.
Palin, who flirted with her own White House run, emerged as a conservative icon and political powerbroker following her failed 2008 vice presidential bid.
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“I don’t think she’s really credible anymore”, said Bruce Dodge, 66, of Ankeny, Iowa.
Trump journeyed Tuesday morning to the John Wayne Birthplace Museum in Winterset, a small town about 30 miles southwest of Des Moines where the famed actor was born. Wayne’s daughter Aissa Wayne endorsed Trump.
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“Palin’s brand among evangelicals is as gold as the faucets in Trump tower”, Ralph Reed, the chairman of the Faith and Freedom Coalition, told the New York Times. The court documents say the woman, Track Palin’s girlfriend of one year, had bruising and swelling around her left eye, and she said her right knee hurt after Palin kicked her there.
