Sarah Palin endorses Donald Trump
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles during a news conference at the John Wayne Museum, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, in Winterset, Iowa.
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Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, left, endorses Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally at the Iowa State University today in Ames, Iowa.
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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump smiles during a news conference at the John Wayne Museum, today in Winterset, Iowa.
AMES, Iowa >> 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 weeks before voting begins with the Iowa caucuses.
“Media heads are spinning,” Palin said after taking the stage at a Trump rally at Iowa State University. “This is going to be so much fun.”
She said that, with Trump as president, America would no longer apologize.
“No more pussy-footing around,” Palin said, adding that Trump would allow the military do its job and destroy the Islamic State group. “He’s going rogue left and right. That’s why he’s doing so well.”
“I am greatly honored to receive Sarah’s endorsement,” Trump said in a statement announcing the support of the former Alaska governor and former running mate of Sen. John McCain in his 2008 bid for the White House. “She is a friend, and a high-quality person whom I have great respect for. I am proud to have her support.”
Palin will also be joining Trump at two events Wednesday, including a rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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The endorsement comes less than two weeks ahead of the critical lead-off Iowa caucus, where Trump is locked in a dead heat with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz.
In the statement announcing the endorsement, Trump’s campaign described Palin as a conservative who “helped launch the careers of several key future leaders of the Republican Party and conservative movement.” The statement also quoted Cruz as once saying he “would not be in the United States Senate were it not for Gov. Sarah Palin. … She can pick winners.”
Campaigning in New Hampshire, Tuesday, Cruz said, “Regardless of what Sarah intends to do in 2016, I will remain a big, big fan of Sarah Palin.”
Trump’s national political director Michael Glassner previously worked with Palin, who was a virtual newcomer to the national political arena when McCain named her as his running mate. She has since risen to prominence as one of the most outspoken conservatives in the party.
She signed on as a Fox News commentator after resigning as Alaska’s governor in 2010, a job she held until last year.
Asked Tuesday morning about his thoughts on a potential Palin endorsement, as rumors of her potential backing swirled, Trump said, “I’m a big fan of Sarah Palin.”
While Trump said he doesn’t typically put much stock in endorsements, he said, “I think it could very well result in votes.”
GOP consultant Kevin Madden said the endorsement’s timing will help Trump to crowd out Cruz’s message at a crucial time in the race.
“I think it helps Trump overwhelm the news cycle with Trump coverage at a critical time,” he said. “It sort of denies Ted Cruz any chance to get back on offense.”
Madden also said that Palin’s support could help shield Trump from charges that his past positions make him too liberal to be the GOP nominee, “giving Trump some rhetorical cover from a conservative validator in the eyes of many grassroots conservatives.”
But some rally-goers at Trump’s event Tuesday evening said they weren’t sure whether Palin’s support would help Trump. Several referenced what many saw as her poor performance as a vice presidential candidate.
“I don’t think it’s going to be a detriment, but I don’t think it’s going to be a huge asset,” said Stephen Freese, 56, of Burlington, Iowa, who works in construction.
“I don’t think she’s really credible anymore,” said Bruce Dodge, 66, of Ankeny, Iowa.
Earlier Tuesday, Trump received an endorsement from the daughter of movie star John Wayne.
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.
“America needs help and we need a strong leader and we need someone like Mr. Trump with leadership qualities, someone with courage, someone that’s strong, like John Wayne,” she said.
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The establishment takes another hit. Here comes Trump.
The establishment deserves to be holed at the waterline and The Donald is unmasking his main battery for salvoes that should do the trick.
The long awaited RINO-cide campaign is UNDERWAY and HOO RAY !!!!
Wait didn’t she and the old white guy loose to Obama and the VP. Now you got a loser supporting a Looser.
I think you need to learn how to spell l-o-s-e-r.
Along with Carl Icahn(Icahn Enterprises)BTW? This guy is HUGE!! Sarah Palin is like Icing on the Cake! Yes,some like to compare her Savvy to Obama….No Match!She wins hands down! She is waaayyy more more qualified than Barrack Obama,She actually ran a STATE! Alaska! More will follow watch. Yes! Donald Let’s do this ! And Make America Great Again!
So, then Arnold or Jesse Ventura would be qualified for president, right? I guess then according to your logic, so would Ige, right? OH, and by the way, G HW Bush was never a governor either, guess he wasn’t qualified? How about Kennedy or Eisenhower?
She ran away from her state Alaska.
Mommy,mommy come home now! Track made a boo boo.
Palin will slump, Trump.
….and her endorsement has clout to help him achieved his goal?
Doesn’t matter. With 47% of the population voting for a living, a conservation doesn’t have a chance.
Well, if we declare dependent as receiving aid, it’s well more than 47%. The 1% is a huge beneficiary of the subsidies paid to various industries where they receive their dividends and capital gains from. The poor generally aren’t those with mortgages benefiting from the mortgage interest itemized deduction. Renters don’t get any benefit from the government, where Mr. $250,000 a year with a a $60,000 annual interest mortgage payment gets to deduct a large portion of that. And everyone benefits from the tax cut that is illegal immigrants working as farm labor. Very, very, very few people don’t receive any monetary or tax benefits at all from the government. Romney himself was a huge beneficiary of the very government he decried people from being dependent on. Bain Capital survived by being dependent on that very government.
What?
No more ‘vomit bag’ childish name calling?
What happened? You get your knuckles rapped?
I reserve that largely for you as you, Thos, are incapable of having adult conversations.
Perfectly capable of an adult conversation, Old Bean, provided of course that there is an adult with whom to converse.
As you have so often demonstrated you fall a bit short of the mark.
Ta ta for now.
Sorry, I just don’t understand your comment at all. Did you mean to say conservative, not conservation? And what does 47% of the population voting for a living mean?
Lol!
A crazy endorses another crazy. Lose/lose.
The more Sa Ra Ba Ra Cu Da is mocked the better for her.
As noted by Don Corleone, a person can have no greater advantage over another than to be underestimated.
No need to underestimate Sarah, she’s at the bottom of the IQ barrel
The reason the feminists (and the girly men) hate her is that she has done virtually EVERYTHING the feminists of 40 years ago claimed women can and should do – – Palin has done it all. She is the embodiment of “I am woman; hear me ROAR”.
And because the feminists couldn’t hack it, their fury at her, fueled by raging jealousy knew and knows no bounds.
Palin made a mockery of these pretentious, preening ninnies and it is a source of sheer delight that she can still get under their skin with such grace and panache.
Integer numbers just for rating Palin. On the minus side.
Of course you would argue that taking a beating is something that winners do…
Poo Hoo! Lose money!
Oh my! What is the message here? If Sarah Palin thinks he’s good…
The message?
The punch is being telegraphed to Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton that a haymaker is in the works and she would do well to get used to seeing the canvas up close.
Kiss of death!
Who? Sarah Palin is not so much a “conservative heavyweight” as much as a past her prime has-been who cant even find a steady gig. Laughable. This is more Palin trying to push her way back into the limelight that Trump receiving and endorsement.
Palin who. oh. The wedlock family, that’s who.
No, She is not related to the Clintons.
Whoop de ding-dong do! I’m soooooo impressed.
Palin will give everyone a free STD test.
Maybe she’s fishing for another VP candidacy?
She smells like the fish.
No. Secretary of State. She can relate on Putin and Kim Jong Un’s level.
My thought exactly. The half-governor is looking for a new temporary gig where people can admire her.
She saw the movie “13 Hours” and decided to jump in. Bye bye Hillary. Bernie is even moving up the Socialist ladder. OMG
Everyone can admire Palin’s squeaky voice.
I can see Lanai from my house.
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I can see Lanai from my lanai! No lai.
One nut job endorsing another nut job….both of them belong on Saturday Night Live not the White House…….
At least they are a adult nut.
You sure they sound like children.
They have already done SNL.
Trump is smiling because he only thinks that he is going to get some of that lady. Not!
McCain would have won if he had picked a better partner than Palin.
McCain would have won had he not been the impulsive ____-up jack ass he always has been.
He drove the nail into his own political coffin by dramatically “suspending” his campaign to crash an “emergency” meeting in the White House where it turned out he had nothing to say.
Beyond that he was a fool to allow his running mate to be interviewed ON TAPE instead of live, giving the ‘news’ media a chance to savage her with selective editing.
Had McCain the wits of a soda cracker, he could have ridden Palin’s coat tails into office, but this yutz could ___ up a handful of steel ball bearings.
What kind of drugs you take?
Truth serum.
He’s got some real anger issues, yeah?
Truth serum has nothing to do with Truth as philosophers see it. It works by removing the conscious inhibitors to whatever’s contained in the subject’s head with no regard to whether the data are false or misguided.
When thos says he takes “truth serum”, I believe he means a laxative.
A match made in IQ challenged heaven !!
Zero plus zero still equals zero.
Be nice to Obama.
Wow, now he can add the quitter Sarah Palin to his stable of endorsements that includes sarge22 and thos. How impressive! Bwahahaha!
The only reason she quit was the torrent of nuisance lawsuits that stole her time and wasted her money – – just as they were designed to do.
What a load of bullocks. She couldn’t handle it and you would be ALL OVER any Democrat that did the same thing. Your hypocrisy is showing, as usual.
I thought she quit because she could cash in on her name recognition. It worked for a little while, but now lake many flash in the pans she is just starving for attention.
Check the polls. The silent majority is alive and well. The wimps are on the run.
Less than 50% of only the Republican possible voters is far from ANY kind of majority… but go ahead, keep repeating the big l-i-e if it makes you feel better.
Kinda like the lie you keep repeating that Hillary is innocent?
The 2016 Republican Presidential candidates, et al, like watching an episode of “Married With Children”. Can’t make this stuff up.
Both shows blew out the ratings. Can’t wait for Hillary’s destruction. Should be a lay up.
The headline says Sarah Palin has “jumped into 2016 race.” Now, “jumping into” a race means that you have become a candidate for the office. Dear Star-Advertiser: are you telling us Palin is now a candidate for President, or has your headline writer gone off the reservation?
High mileage Palin to the recuse.
hilary’s email problems are mushrooming into felonies for her mishandling of classified information.
her claim that no classified information was transmitted via her email system as no email bore classified markings was exposed as a lie in her email directing staff to send classified information without headings and classified markings.
past and continuing investigations reveal clinton emails with contents that were and still are classified that were transmitted via clinton’s unsecured email server.
hilarious will most likely be wearing orange before she wears the title potus.
A clown endorsing anothe clown… Lol.
Sarah will have You Tube videos on the benefits of wedlock?
Dumber endorsing dumber?
Palin was McCain’s bad omen.
Palin’s family is the wedlock kings and queens of America.
Trump and Daffy Duck would have made a better choice.
Trump has some closed door session coupons with her, tonight.
This is great news for the Democrats. Palin is the perfect deterrent for voting Trump.
Hugging Sarah makes me wonder which head Trump is thinking with.