Palin, who was the Republican vice presidential candidate in 2008, asked cheering supporters at a campaign rally in Iowa Tuesday.
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While Sarah Palin was readying her Trump endorsement speech, her oldest son Track, (photo right, ) was being arrested for menacing his girlfriend.
“No more pussy-footing around”, Palin said, adding that Trump would allow the military do its job and destroy the Islamic State. This is yet another example of Palin “going rogue” in the eyes of the establishment and mainstream media. “That’s why he’s doing so well”.
Although retired from politics, the self-styled “hockey mom”, who was John McCain’s running mate in 2008 before losing to Barack Obama, remains an influential conservative voice.
“So those of us who have gone through the ringer as Mr. Trump has, makes me respect you even more”, she said. (Crowd screams “Hallelujah!”) Then she came out with a fifth-grade level rationale for a Trump presidency: “Where, in the private sector you actually have to balance budgets in order to keep the main thing the main thing, and he knows the main thing, a president is to keep us safe economic and militarily”.
The endorsement’s impact, including its timing so close to caucuses, could reshape the Cruz-Trump fight in the state, political watchers said. Ted Cruz ahead of the February 1 caucus. The woman told police he was yelling “Do you think I won’t do it?”
According to NBC News, the girlfriend broke away, retrieve her phone and ran back inside the Palin home, where Palin met her with and his AR-15 rifle.
I like Cruz. In fact, I met him previous year, and I believe anyone’s better than Hillary Clinton.
Trump has been campaigning in Iowa over the past days.
At a large rally at Iowa State University, Trump introduced Palin, who could give him a significant boost in the nation’s first voting state. At the beginning of the 20-minute I-don’t-know-what-except-that-I-need-a-cocktail that followed, she made sure to point out how the media that was just so shocked!
“I think it helps Trump overwhelm the news cycle with Trump coverage at a critical time”, he said.
But there had also been speculation that Palin may endorse Cruz, whom she has also spoken highly of and endorsed in his 2012 Senate bid.
At a press conference on Tuesday, Trump declined to confirm rumors of the Palin endorsement.
Cruz responded to her switch of allegiance with magnanimity.
On the campaign trail, Cruz spent more than five minutes talking about Trump, urging those in the audience to look at the records of all the Republican presidential candidates.
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“Regardless of what she does in 2016”, he tweeted, “I will always be a big fan”.
