Really? Why is she still an issue???

Cruz aide: 'Deeply disappointed' if Palin endorsed Trump

By Nick Gass

A Sarah Palin endorsement of Donald Trump would do more damage to Palin's conservative credentials than it would to Ted Cruz, the candidate's communications director said Tuesday, remarking that he would be "deeply disappointed."

Trump has teased a "major announcement" and a "very special guest" at a campaign stop in Ames, Iowa, later in the afternoon, leading to speculation that it could be an endorsement from evangelical leader Jerry Falwell Jr. (whose Liberty University hosted Trump on Monday) or from Palin, the former governor of Alaska and 2008 vice-presidential candidate.

"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," Cruz spokesman Rick Tyler told CNN's "New Day," adding that the Manhattan businessman supported the TARP bailout.

While acknowledging that Trump has signaled a shift in his more liberal views, Tyler said that "if it was Sarah Palin, let me just say I’d be deeply disappointed."

A source close to the Palins told POLITICO that it is "unfortunate to see some of Sen. Cruz's new Washington staff trying to drive a wedge in the media between two solid conservative allies."

"Gov. Palin has been a staunch supporter of Sen. Cruz — long before any of them came along, and will remain one long after they are gone," the source said.

Palin backed Cruz for Senate in 2012 and has offered praise for both him and Trump during the primary campaign. The trio appeared at a Capitol Hill rally in September denouncing the nuclear deal with Iran.

In November, Palin told a North Carolina radio station that Trump becoming president is "a very real possibility." A month later, she told CNN's Jake Tapper, "I'm not going to pick one right now, but what a nice problem to have if it came down to Cruz and Trump."

The relationship between Trump and Palin extends back to 2011, when the two ate pizza with a fork in Times Square during a stop on Palin's bus tour.