Boost for Donald Trump as Sarah Palin backs him for President

Sarah Palin, left, endorses Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump during a rally at the Iowa State University, Tuesday, Jan. 19, 2016, in Ames, Iowa.

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”.

Kappler went to Palin’s home after a 911 caller reported a man punched her in the face during an argument.

Palin’s endorsement of Trump was interpreted by some analysts as a snub to Ted Cruz, another conservative candidate she had backed in his campaign to win a Texas senate seat and who is now running neck-and-neck with Trump in Iowa, a key early battleground in the race for the presidential nomination.

This could be the edge Donald Trump needs to pull ahead of Cruz, but the senator says he isn’t holding Palin’s endorsement against her.

Even if Iowa’s first-in-the-nation Republican caucuses do not always pick the victor, they have been known to derail front-runners.

GOP consultant Kevin Madden said the timing will likely help Trump crowd out Cruz’s message as the Iowa caucuses approach.

She described him as the best thing to happen to the permanent political class. With Trump, “the beauty of the Tea Party genuine movement rose up and shined light on crony capitalism and then pulled the rug right out from under status quo politicians”, Palin told NPR. Send me. You betcha, I’ll serve.

She contrasted them with conservative Republicans: “Right wingin’, bitter clingin’, proud clingers of our guns, our god, and our religions, and our Constitution”. John McCain’s running mate.

“I’d like to bring up, Governor Sarah Palin”, Trump said. “She didn’t see where Palin went, so she went inside and up the stairs, where she hid under a bed”. 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!

Richard Schwarm, the former chairman of the Iowa Republican Party, said Palin’s popularity
remains solid in the state’s conservative circles.

The news came as Palin’s oldest son was arrested in a domestic violence case in which his girlfriend said she was afraid would shoot himself with an AR-15 assault rifle.

Palin tweeted the line, as did Trump’s campaign manager.

Ms Palin has repeatedly praised Mr Trump during his White House run, especially over his recent proposal to suspend the admission of Muslim refugees to the US.

“I don’t think she’s really credible anymore”, Bruce Dodge, 66, a retiree who lives in Ankeny, Iowa told Associated Press.