Sarah Palin and Donald Trump. Together. Oh my!
On Tuesday, January 19, Palin announced she was supporting Trump’s presidential campaign. The former vice presidential candidate from Alaska gave a 20 minute speech regarding the announcement, stating that she was “proud to endorse” Trump.
This endorsement for the Republican front-runner has been speculated as pivotal for his campaign, especially in the battle over Iowa with other Republican candidates like Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio.
But what does this endorsement mean for college-aged voters?
So far, nothing really. It means Palin is supporting Trump’s campaign for the presidency and that she’s once again involved in the presidential campaign.
Palin said to the crowd of voters at the Iowa rally, in typical Palin fashion: “Looking around at all of you, you hard working Iowa families, you farm families and teachers and teamsters and cops and cooks, you rock and rollers and holy rollers!”
With her comes a large conservative group with “grassroots” values that Trump did not necessarily have before.
Trump said of Palin’s support, “I’m a big fan of Sarah Palin.”
Well, who wouldn’t be with the number of voters accompanying Palin in her support of Trump?
However this support does not mean she is taking a second run at being the next vice president. Yet, that is.
Trump said, “Certainly, there would be a role somewhere in the administration, if she wanted, and I’m not sure that she does want that, but there would certainly be a role.”
Until then, voters need to gear up to hear more of Palin’s political and social views in the time leading up the Republican primaries.
Palin said during the rally, “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’s ultimate goal, as seen throughout her 2008 run for vice president, is to eliminate this department entirely.
Many other Republican candidates have responded to this announcement.
Cruz said, “Regardless of what Sarah decides to do in 2016, I will always remain a big, big fan.”
His campaign spokesman Rick Tyler also said, “”I think it’d be a blow to Sarah Palin, because Sarah Palin has been a champion for the conservative cause, and if she was going to endorse Donald Trump, sadly, she would be endorsing someone who’s held progressive views all their life on the sanctity of life, on marriage, on partial-birth abortion.”
Overall, the race is in full swing as the Republicans gain and lose support leading up to the Republican primary. Palin’s support just brings Trump closer and closer to being the Republican candidate.
But, will be see Palin after the primary elections? We shall see voters. We shall see.
Please note that South Carolina’s primary is February 20, 2016. Remember to vote at your designated voting location.