During the campaign, his opponents questioned Sarah Palin’s real interest in Alaska, notably referring to his resignation from his post as governor in July 2009, in the midst of his mandate.
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Sarah Palin’s return to politics could last long. The former governor of Alaska lost, Wednesday, August 31, a by-election on the only seat of this State in the House of US Representatives, which served as a test before the mid-term elections on November 8.
M me Palin, 58, hoped to come back to the front of the stage by brigating this vacant seat since the death, in March, of the Republican Don Young, who had occupied him for 49 years. Despite the support of former President Donald Trump, she lost to the Democrat Mary Peltola, who will represent Alaska until November 8 – when all of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives of the United States will be handed over Game. M me Palin will be able to show up again on this occasion.
During the campaign, his opponents questioned Sarah Palin’s real interest in Alaska, notably referring to his resignation from his post as governor in July 2009, in the midst of his mandate. M Me Palin then became a conservative commentator on television before participating in… reality TV shows. So many criticisms that she tried to sweep, declaring before the special election that she had “engaged for the long term”. The two Senators of Alaska, the Republicans Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski, congratulated her opponent, Mary Peltola, for her victory.
Church of the Tea Party
In her political career, Sarah Palin cultivated her image as an average American, becoming one of the muses of the Tea Party. This Christian conservative played a key role in the populist turn of the Republican Party in the past ten years, intended to delight the votes of the White Popular Electorate to Democrats. She had suddenly found herself under the spotlight when she had been chosen by the republican candidate for the presidency John McCain as vice-president in the 2008 elections.
His ascent has, according to many observers, opened the way to Donald Trump, who entered the White House eight years later. Sarah Palin said that she had supported the New York billionaire from the start of her campaign in 2016, because he had supported her before.
Donald Trump tries to consolidate his grip on the Republican Party by supporting, during primaries, the candidates who are favorable to him in the face of those of the more moderate republican right, with a success for the moment mixed. During the mid-term elections, the Americans will also renew a third of the United States Senate and around thirty positions of governors.