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Former Alaska GOP Gov. Sarah Palin is finally breaking her silence on something that has been apparently bothering her about the late Arizona Sen. John McCain and his family.
During an interview on Good Morning Britain, Palin — who served as McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential election — described how not being invited to McCain’s funeral was a “gut punch.”
Palin said she was “disinvited” from McCain’s funeral, which she said deeply upset her given was his running mate in 2008.
“They [the McCain family] didn’t have to embarrass me and others, it wasn’t just me it was other people from our campaign back in 2008… it’s kind of a gut punch,” Palin said.
“It’s been bizarre. When I was tapped to run as the first woman VP candidate on the Republican ticket, I had nearly 90 percent approval rating as the governor of the largest state,” she added.
Palin continued, “It made sense to me and my supporters why John McCain did tap me. But, yeah, once getting out there on that national stage and realizing that there are so many snakes in politics, they are so many snakes in the Republican party who were running the show and allowing me to get clobbered.”
Palin argued that McCain’s team and family placed a lot of blame on her for his failed 2008 presidential run, which she said may have been why she wasn’t invited to the funeral.
“They were looking for someone to blame for their really crappy type of campaign that they ran. I was a scapegoat,” Palin said.
“That’s in the past though…sometimes you win, sometimes you learn and I certainly learned through that,” she added.
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‘I was surprised to be publicly disinvited...'
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, speaks for the first time about not being invited to John McCain's funeral.
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Later in the interview, Palin also said President Donald Trump has a strong chance of being re-elected in 2020 because no other candidate “comes close.”
“Consider what Trump has been able to accomplish, despite it being a three against one game going on here,” Palin said.
“You have the Democrats, the media, which is complicit with the Democratic shenanigans and then you have obstructionists in his own party, and despite that the President has enough support of the people, the average forgotten man and woman of America,” she continued.
Palin added: “He has had, relatively speaking, a reasonably wonderful two years.”
McCain died in August 2018 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Like Palin, Trump also was not invited to the former Arizona Republicans funeral.
Trump and McCain had several notable public fall-outs, many of which centered around the president voicing his displeasure with the late senator not voting in favor of certain legislation.
Most notably, McCain was the deciding vote in the Senate that could have repealed Obamacare.
Had McCain voted “yea,” Republicans could have repealed and replaced Obamacare. But his “no” kept Obamacare alive, and his vote angered many people.
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