There'd be a role

Trump: 'Certainly there'd be a role' for Palin in my administration

By Nick Gass

Donald Trump says he has not asked Sarah Palin to be his vice presidential candidate, remarking Wednesday that he did not think "it'd be something that she'd want to do." But, he indicated, she could play a role in his administration if she so desired.

"She’s been through that, and interestingly, Savannah, this is a 100 percent fact, when she came to see me and she talked to me, I could see that she really liked what we were saying," the Republican presidential candidate said in a telephone interview with Savannah Guthrie on NBC's "Today," following Palin's endorsement of his campaign on Tuesday evening in Ames, Iowa.

Palin did not approach him with any demands about what she would like to do in the campaign or in a potential Trump administration.

"She never made a deal, like so many people want to try and make deals. I mean, she just said: I really like what’s going on, it’s an amazing thing, I’ve never seen anything like it in politics," Trump told Guthrie.

While adding that Palin could "certainly" play a role in his campaign or future administration, potentially as the vice presidential pick, Trump declined to engage in any speculation as to whether she would be his choice, boasting that "everybody wanted" the endorsement of the former Alaska governor and 2008 vice-presidential nominee.

“I haven’t discussed it with her. No, I haven’t discussed anything with her about what she’d do, but she’s somebody I really like and I respect. And certainly, she could play a position if she wanted to," Trump said, adding that he did not think Palin would want to do that again.

"I mean, I don’t think she’d want to do it, and I really don’t get into it right now because — that question is always asked of me, who do you have in mind," he continued. "And I don’t even think about VP right now, and I just want to win. I’ve always been a closer, I get the deal done, I have to win before I start thinking about that."

Again calling Palin's endorsement an "honor," Trump at the end of the relatively brief interview took another victory lap over his opponents who did not get her backing.

"It's such an honor, because as you know, very badly, so many people are so disappointed that she didn't support them," he said. "But certainly there'd be a role in the administration if she wanted, and I'm not sure that she does want that. But there'd certainly be a role."