The support of the former Alaska governor, who is popular among conservatives, will potentially boost the businessman’s chances of winning the Iowa caucuses on February 1st, the first nominating ballot in the race to be the Republican nominee in the November election.
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Former Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin endorsed Donald Trump’s bid for the White House on Tuesday.
Trump said he was “greatly honored to receive Sarah’s endorsement”, calling her a “friend, and a high quality person whom I have great respect for”. “And like you all I’m still standing”, she said.
Donald Trump said he doesn’t think Sarah Palin would be interested in becoming his running mate mate and trying for a second time to become vice president. Ted Cruz of Texas for the support of Iowa Republicans, who lean conservative and whose evangelical Christians comprise a major voting bloc.
Palin, the party’s 2008 vice presidential nominee and a hero to the Tea Party movement, sought to validate Trump’s conservative credentials while also selling him as an everyman, despite his outsized wealth.
“After hearing what Cruz is now saying about my mom, in a negative knee-jerk reaction, makes me hope my mom does endorse Trump”, Bristol Palin wrote in the post, which Sarah Palin shared on Facebook and Twitter.
“The cartel exists to make deals and to pick winners and losers through cronyism and corporate welfare”. “Regardless of what she does in 2016, I’ll always be a big fan”.
And she used her trademark on-stage drama to mock reporters she says have criticized her for years.
Trump and Palin did not discuss how the endorsement had come about, but Trump’s national political director Michael Glassner previously worked for her. Trump said earlier Tuesday that he doesn’t typically put much stock in endorsements, but said of this one, “I think it could very well result in votes”.
Palin’s endorsement was seen as a big blow to Cruz, whom she has supported in the past.
Still, he added, “Sarah Palin can’t save Donald Trump from being insane”, referring to some of Trump’s proclamations, such as a plan to ban Muslims from entering the country, which Graham said made Trump unelectable.
“Thank you so much, it’s so great to be in Iowa, we’re here just thawing out”.
Palin and Trump have exchanged compliments as far back as 2011, when both were dabbling with a 2012 presidential run. June Heidn said she was “inspiring” and might help Mr Trump appeal to female voters.
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Support for Sanders has surged by 10 points since the previous CNN/WMUR poll, with 60 percent of likely voters backing him, compared with 33 percent supporting Clinton.
