WASHINGTON | Former Republican candidate for the vice-president of the United States Sarah Palin will run for a seat in the House of Representatives in the midterm congressional elections on November 8, she announced on her Facebook page on Friday.
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“Today I am announcing my candidacy for a seat in the United States House of Representatives to represent Alaska,” wrote the former governor of that state.
“America is at a pivotal moment. When I saw the extreme left destroying the country, I knew I had to step up and join the fight,” says Sarah Palin.
Propelled to center stage during the 2008 presidential campaign, Sarah Palin campaigned alongside Republican John McCain to become vice-president. The ballot had been won by Barack Obama and Joe Biden, who had become vice-president.
Governor of Alaska between 2006 and 2009, she became involved, after her resignation, in the very conservative movement of the Tea Party, heralding the irruption in politics of Donald Trump, whose campaign she moreover supported in 2016.
She is now seeking the seat held so far by Don Young, Dean of the House of Representatives who died on March 18 after having represented Alaska in Congress continuously since 1967, that is for 49 years.
In February, Sarah Palin was defeated by the jury in a Manhattan civil court when she sought the conviction of the New York Times for defamation.