The star of Sarah Palin’s Alaska backs Donald Trump of The Apprentice, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
Sarah Palin and Donald Trump walk toward a limo in 2011.
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Sarah Palin has endorsed Donald Trump for the Republican presidential nomination according to a report from the New York Times.
It had been widely speculated that the former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee would appear with Trump at a rally in Ames, Iowa, on Tuesday, based on flight records and Trump himself teasing a "big announcement" with a "very special guest."
Palin's endorsement is a major pick-up for Trump in Iowa, where he's running neck-and-neck with Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, who was once championed by Palin.
Palin emerged from the 2008 campaign as a star in the grassroots conservative movement. After resigning as governor in 2009, Palin went on to endorse a slew tea party candidates who would win their elections in 2010, including Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul and Florida Sen. Marco Rubio.
Before her endorsement Tuesday evening, Cruz's campaign spokesman Rick Tyler warned that Palin backing Trump would damage her image as a champion of conservative causes.
"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," Tyler said on CNN's New Day.
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