Palin embraced Trump before he came to dominate the GOP.
“As I’ve watched the far left destroy the country, I knew I had to step up and join the fight.”
Palin is competing against candidates across parties in the June 11 primary for Young’s seat, the first step in a special election under Alaska’s new top-four primary system. The four people who win the most votes will appear on a ranked-choice ballot in August. Voters passed the change to election procedures in 2020 over the opposition of many Republicans. The shift has upended a previously predictable race in Alaska, where Democrats have not won a federal election for almost 15 years.2020 Democratic U.S. Senate nominee Al Gross, Anchorage Assembly member Christopher Constant and Republican state Sen. Josh Revak, who had chaired Young’s 2022 reelection campaign.paid tribute to Trump as she signaled interest in Young’s former seat.
“We need people like Donald Trump, who has nothing to lose, like me,” she said on Fox News last month. “We’ve got nothing to lose and no more of this vanilla milquetoast namby-pamby … stuff that’s been going on.” While endorsing Palin on Sunday night, Trump claimed that she “lifted the McCain presidential campaign out of the dumps.” Palin’s selection as McCain’s running mate did thrill the Republican base — but McCain would eventually
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