Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin expressed interest in entering the presidential fray hours before addressing conservative activists alongside a group of fellow White House hopefuls at the Iowa Freedom Summit Saturday.
Palin, a former vice presidential candidate, told the Washington Post she is “seriously interested” in launching a campaign for the presidency in 2016.
Her comments came days after telling ABC she would “of course” consider running because Americans have “had enough of seeing that sign on the Oval Office door saying, ‘No Girls Allowed.'”
“You can absolutely say that I am seriously interested,” Palin said Friday in Des Moines. “As I said yesterday, I’m really interested in the opportunity to serve at some point.”
Although Palin publicly mulled a 2012 bid, she ruled against running before the GOP primaries began. She had stepped down as governor of Alaska in July 2009 in what was widely seen as an early move toward the national contest.
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee are among the dozens of Republicans joining Palin at the highly-anticipated Iowa event that many have hailed as a political litmus test for the growing field of potential 2016 candidates.
No stranger to the campaign trail herself, Palin traveled extensively for Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain in 2008 and criss-crossed the country for congressional candidates like Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst last year.
