CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Sarah Palin said Monday that Iowa Congressman Steve King is a dishonest person and has spent too much time in cornfields “huffin’ ethanol,” comments she made while opening for Donald Trump at his last Iowa campaign event before the caucus.
“You’ve got your good old representative Steve King. Just a bit ago he’s accused me on MSNBC — really MSNBC? — of selling my support to Mr. Trump,” Palin said on Monday afternoon. “This is why people don’t really like political, this dirty business. They say things they know are untrue. Why would Steve King from the heartland of America say things he knows isn’t true?”
When King endorsed Ted Cruz in November, Trump was offended and began bad mouthing the Iowa congressman on the campaign trail. Yesterday, King stated that he “knows some things about Trump’s endorsements” and that the business mogul wooed Palin to support his campaign with “assets and resources.”
“That just doesn’t sound like the heartland, maybe he’s forgotten some of his heart in the heartland or gotten a touch of Potomac fever up there in D.C.,” Palin continued to the cheering fans. “Maybe he’s been hanging out in the cornfields huffin’ ethanol or something.”
Trumps leads the GOP field by three points according to the latest Des Moines Register poll, with Cruz trailing him in second place 28-23. He is currently first in the Washington Examiner‘s presidential power rankings.
