(Anchorage) Donald Trump campaigned on Saturday in Alaska for Sarah Palin, the former governor of the northern American state considered by many to be a precursor of the populist and anti-elite movement of which the former Republican president has made himself the champion.
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Mme Palin, 58, is running for Alaska’s only seat in the U.S. House of Representatives, vacant after the sudden death of Republican Don Young, who held it for 49 years.
Like Mr Trump, she has played a key role in the Republican Party’s populist shift over the past decade in an effort to woo the working class. This Christian conservative suddenly found herself in the spotlight when she was chosen by Republican presidential candidate John McCain as his running mate in the 2008 election. many observers, paved the way for Mr. Trump’s ascent to the White House, which he won eight years later.
Sarah Palin supports the unfounded allegations of fraud brandished by Donald Trump, who claims to have been “robbed” of the 2020 presidential victory by the Democrats in several key states. “In Alaska, we didn’t have to worry because we won,” the former president told the crowd gathered in a stadium in Anchorage.
Mme Palin told the audience that she supported Mr. Trump from the start of his campaign in 2016 because the New York billionaire also supported her when she and her family found themselves in the spotlight.
“He wrote me a note and said: ‘Hold on!’ ” did she say.
All of the 435 members of the American House of Representatives must be renewed during the mid-term elections on 8th November next.
Donald Trump is trying to consolidate his hold on the Republican Party by supporting, in the primaries, the candidates who are favorable to him against those of the more moderate Republican right.