THE LONGER SERVICE REPUBLICAN
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
DIED TWO WEEKS AGO.
AND NOW MORE THAN 50 CANDIDATES
ARE RUNNING TO FILL THE STATE
OF DON YOUNG IN ALASKA.
ONE OF THOSE 50 IS A FAMILIAR
FACE, FORMER HALFTIME GOVERNOR
AND FIELD VICE PRESIDENTIAL
CANDIDATE SARAH PALIN.
LAST NIGHT, SHE PROWESS ON
SURPRISINGLY GOT DONALD TRUMP'S
COMPLETE ENDORSEMENT, FEELS
LIKE THE REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS
COME FULL CIRCLE.
BACK IN 2008, THE JOHN MCCAIN
CAMPAIGN SCRAMBLING TO FIND A
RUNNING NAME.
THEY LUNGED ON SURVEILLANCE.
LITTLE KNOWN EVEN BY THE PEN --
SHE WAS A FUGITIVE FIRST, UNTIL
SHE BECAME MORE KNOWN --
WE'LL DISCOVER THE FUELS A
CANDIDATE SEEMINGLY ENTIRELY
DISINTERESTED IN THE REALITIES
OF GOVERNING.
SHE LIKES BASIC KNOWLEDGE OF A
FOREIGN POLICY, WE WON HOW
WASHINGTON FUNCTIONED.
BUT, SHE MADE UP WITH IT WITH
RIGHT-WING RHETORIC, AND
THINKING ABOUT TONE TOWARD
SPARK OBAMA.
THE REPUBLICAN BASE LOVE THE,
YOU WILL FEEL AND HAD MOMENTS
LIKE THIS ONE WITH KATIE HURT.
>> WHEN IT COMES TO
ESTABLISHING YOUR WORLD VIEW, I
WAS CURIOUS, WHAT'S PAPERS AND
MAGAZINES DID YOU REGULARLY
READ BEFORE YOU WERE IN THIS
DISDAIN FOR?
>> AVERAGE MOST OF THEM WITH A
GREAT APPRECIATION FOR THE
PRESS, FOR THE MEDIA.
>> BUT WHAT SPECIFICALLY ARE
YOU I'M CURIOUS?
>> ALL OF THEM, ANY OF THEM
THAT HAVE BEEN IN FRONT OF ME
OVER ALL THESE YEARS.
>> AS MY NEXT GUEST KNOWS, THE
FACT THAT BAIT LINE WAS
OBVIOUSLY UNFIT FOR ALL OF THIS
--
SHE MADE THE RIGHT PEOPLE
ANGRY.
SHE STARTED LARGER CROWDS AND
RALLIES THAT LOOKED A LOT LIKE
THE ONES TRUMP WOULD HOLD YEARS
LATER.
AFTER LOSING, PAIN LYNN
RESIGNED BEFORE IT ALMOST UP.
SHE FOCUSED FULL-TIME ON
POSTING ON SOCIAL MEDIA, AND
THE REALITY SHOW IS SHE USED TO
REACH HER BASE OUTSIDE OF
TRADITIONAL NEWS OUTLETS.
A TACTIC THAT HELP DONALD TRUMP
WIN THE PRESIDENCY IN 2016.
THE PALIN MODEL FILLED AS IT
WAS, WAS A PROUD LACK OF
POLITICAL KNOWLEDGE MIXED WITH
ATTENTION ANTICS, IT SAID THE
MOLD FOR TODAY'S REPUBLICANS.
MADISON CAWTHORN, TED CRUZ, NOT
15 YEARS LATER AFTER GETTING
THE JOHN DOE, PALIN IS BACK
TRYING TO MAKE A RUN TO JOIN
THEM SHE'S ALREADY STARTING THE
ADDITION PROCESS.
>> WE NEED PEOPLE WHO HAVE
COJONES.
WE NEED PEOPLE LIKE DONALD
TRUMP WAS NOTHING TO LOSE.
LIKE ME WE'RE GONNA THINK LOOSE.
NONE OF THIS WILL SEE STUFF
THAT'S BEEN GOING ON.
>> THERE'S A REPORTER FROM NEW
YORK TIMES WHO A SIZZLING FROM
SARAH PALIN AND DONALD TRUMP
AND HIS NEW BOOK, INSURGENCY.
AND THERE ARE A LOT OF
SIMILARITIES IN A STRAIGHT LINE
FROM PALIN TO TRUMP.
YOU DO WONDER, IT'S ONE OF
THESE, CAN YOU GO HOME AGAIN
KIND OF MOMENTS, WHETHER THE
SHIFTING OF POLITICS AND TO THE
DIRECTION OF TRUMP AND MATT
GATES, AND THOSE FIGURES MEANS
IT'S EASIER FOR HER?
AND WHETHER THIS IS A NATURAL
FIT, OR MAYBE IT'S HARD TO PULL
OFF?
>> WELL, THERE WAS NOTHING I
WONDERED WHEN I WAS REPORTING
THIS WEEK, THAT WAS SARAH PALIN
THE CANARY IN THE COAL MINE?
OR WAS SHE AN ANOMALY.
AND IT TURNS OUT, SHE'S NOT AN
ANOMALY.
SARAH PALIN IS THE REPUBLICAN
PARTY.
I THINK THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO
GO VERY FAR BACK INTO
REPUBLICAN PARTY HISTORY TO
UNDERSTAND WHY SHE CLICKS WITH
THE VOTERS.
HE HAS ALWAYS BEEN SOMEBODY WHO
HAS BEEN SEEN AS ONE OF YOU.
WHEN SHE WAS IN ALASKA, SHE
CLICKED WITH VOTERS BECAUSE
PEOPLE SAW THEMSELVES IN HER.
SHE WAS A MOM, SHE HAD FIVE
KIDS, SHE TALKED LIKE THEM, SHE
DID HAVE A LOT OF ELITIST AREAS
ABOUT HER, AND REALLY, THAT'S
WHAT OVERLOOKING VOTERS SAW IN
DONALD TRUMP.
I THINK THAT WHAT HAPPENED TO
HER IS ANOTHER STORY AS SHE
BECAME THE 20 --
THE 2008'S VICE PRESIDENTIAL
NOMINEE, SHE LOST HER WAY A
BIT.
BUT, SHE IS NOW BACK ON STAGE,
AND I THINK THAT SHE IS
SOMEBODY WHO NEEDS TO BE TAKEN
VERY SERIOUSLY AS A CONTENDER
FOR THIS CONGRESSIONAL SEE.
>> BUT THERE'S SOME
DISTINCTIONS THERE, WHAT'S
INTERESTING ABOUT HER IS --
SHE WAS NOT FAKING IT AS
GOVERNOR OF ALASKA.
SHE WAS FROM WHERE SHE WAS FROM,
SHE HAD WORKED HER WAY THROUGH
THE LOCAL OFFICE.
DONALD TRUMP WAS A
MULTIMILLIONAIRE WHO NEVER SET
FOOT OUTSIDE THE NEW YORK.
SO IT'S INTERESTING AS,
SURVEILLING ON DONALD TRUMP OR
TAPPING INTO THE SAME THING,
BUT IT WASN'T JUST, YOU CAN
TRACK IT UP TO THE LACK OF
PRETENSION OR FOLKSINESS,
PARTICULARLY NOW SHE'S SITTING
THERE AND GIVING THAT INTERVIEW
AND A HOUSE WHO SITTING ROOM IS
LARGER THAN THE BLOCK I LIVE ON
AN BROOKLYN.
AND YOU DOCUMENT THIS HERE,
THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON.
JOURNALIST COVERING THOSE
RALLIES KEPT DOCUMENTING THE
VITRIOL THAT WAS OUR THING FROM
A CROWD.
SOME OF IT'S SO UGLY, THE
SECRET SERVICE THAT LOOK INTO
ONE INCIDENT AS A PRECAUTION.
FOR SACRAMENTO PEOPLE SHOUTING
OBAMA BIN LADEN, TREASON, OFF
OF THIS HAD.
NOW WE HAVE THIS TWO MINUTE
HATE THAT HAPPENS IN THE TRUMP
RALLY, WHERE THEY ALL JEER.
AND HITTING THE RIGHT PEOPLE,
AND BEING HATED BY THE RIGHT
PEOPLE SEEMS TO BE THE DEFINING
THING SHE TAPPED INTO THAT HAS
BECOME SO DEFINITIONAL FOR A
LOT OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY.
>> THAT'S EXACTLY RIGHT, CHRIS.
AND THAT WAS HER APPEAL IN
ALASKA.
EVEN FAR BACK AS 2004, WHEN SHE
WAS NOT QUITE GOVERNOR YET, I'M
NOT A MAJOR FIGURE, SHE CLICKED
WITH PEOPLE BECAUSE SOMEBODY
CALLED HER AND HER FELLOW
DENIZEN'S OF THE VALLEY, VALLEY
TRASH.
IT WAS AN EARLY VERSION OF THE
DEPLORABLES.
AND SHE WORE THAT AS A BADGE OF
HONOR.
NOT AS SOMETHING LIKE, HOW DARE
YOU SAY THIS ABOUT ME?
THEY APPROPRIATED.
AND THEY TOOK THIS AS A BADGE
OF HONOR.
AND I WORKED FOR THEM JUST LIKE
IT DID WITH TRUMP SUPPORTERS
BECAUSE THEY FELT AS IF THE
MAINSTREAM REPUBLICAN PARTY WAS
LOOKING DOWN ON THEM AND NOT
REPRESENTING THEM.
AND THE HOUSE WOULD ULTIMATELY
TRUMP'S AND.
TRUMPISM IS NOT AN IDEOLOGY,
THERE ARE NO FIXED POLICIES, IT
IS ABOUT MAKING PEOPLE BELIEVE
THAT A SET OF ELITES LOOK DOWN
ON THEM.
IT'S VERY POPULIST, AS YOU KNOW,
AND THAT IS WHAT'S SHE