“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”, Palin said.
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Instead the party is now facing the very real possibility that its primary campaign will be entirely dominated two candidates who most represent what he calls its “asinine” inclinations – Trump and Ted Cruz. “She is a friend, and a high quality person whom I have great respect for”.
The property billionaire said he was “greatly honored” by the endorsement from his fellow reality TV star.
“Don’t underestimate Sarah Palin’s ability to excite conservative Republicans”, said Steffen Schmidt, a political science professor at Iowa State, who pointed to the boost she gave U.S. Sen.
There is nothing surprising about the political marriage of Donald Trump and Sarah Palin.
The speculation became stronger when Palin’s daughter Bristol threw her support behind Trump, and he started promoting a mysterious endorsement set for 6 p.m. ET Tuesday. “Regardless of what she does in 2016, I will always be a big fan”. Palin, Trump and his wife, Melania, shared a pizza in NY in June 2011, when Palin was considering a presidential run of her own and was making a bus tour around the country.
Palin offered her full-throated support for Trump and slammed President Barack Obama as the “capitulator in chief”. The mantra of her final weeks of the 2008 campaign was “going rogue”, as she defied instructions from aides to Sen.
The 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee flew in to make the announcement.
The event came a day after Palin’s oldest son, Track, was arrested in a domestic violence case in which his girlfriend told police she was afraid he would shoot himself with a rifle.
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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.
