{"id":1393899,"date":"2022-03-22T11:45:58","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393899"},"modified":"2022-03-22T11:46:11","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T15:46:11","slug":"in-a-heartbeat-palin-says-shed-serve-in-late-congress-members-open-seat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-a-heartbeat-palin-says-shed-serve-in-late-congress-members-open-seat\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018In A Heartbeat\u2019: Palin Says She\u2019d Serve In Late Congress Member\u2019s Open Seat"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fin-a-heartbeat-palin-says-shed-serve-in-late-congress-members-open-seat%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1393899&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told Newsmax she would take over recently passed Rep. Don Young\u2019s House seat \u201cin a heartbeat\u201d if she were asked to.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThink of those huge shoes that are to be filled when we consider Don Young\u2019s longevity and his passion, his love, his fighting spirit for our wonderful state of Alaska and for the nation as a whole,\u201d she <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/newsmax\/status\/1506019064996511746?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1506019064996511746%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&#038;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailymail.co.uk%2Fnews%2Farticle-10637499%2FSarah-Palin-run-late-GOP-Rep-Don-Youngs-seat.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">told<\/a> Newsmax. \u201cWe\u2019ll see how this process is going to go in terms of filling that seat but it would be an honor\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/15\/jury-rules-new-york-times-sarah-palin-defamation-case\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palin<\/a> said it \u201cwould be an honor\u201d to take over Young\u2019s seat. \u201cIf I were asked to serve in the House and take his place, I would be humbled and honored and I would. Yeah, in a heartbeat I would.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Young\u2019s office confirmed on Friday that the congressman <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/18\/breaking-rep-don-young-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">died at the age of 88<\/a> while traveling home to Alaska. He was first elected in 1973, and he was running for his 26th term in the House when he passed. The opening of Young\u2019s former seat, which is the only one Alaska is allotted in the House, created an opening that many in the state had been waiting for, The Washington Examiner <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/raucous-alaska-special-election-looms-after-don-youngs-death\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">\ud83d\udea8 Gov. Sarah Palin announces next political move \u2014 she may be sitting right next to Nancy Pelosi very soon <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XiTVX0JI3u\">pic.twitter.com\/XiTVX0JI3u<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Benny (@bennyjohnson) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bennyjohnson\/status\/1506266140263202822?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 22, 2022<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThere are a lot of people who worked for him who thought they should inherit his seat in some fashion,\u201d a Republican operative told the outlet. \u201cNow that he\u2019s passed away, a lot of these people would be free to throw their hats in the ring.\u201d <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/12\/06\/donald-trump-north-carolina-gop-republican-primary-senate-richard-burr-thom-tillis-ted-budd\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Trump Makes A Deal To Clear North Carolina GOP Senate Field So His Candidate Can Win)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Alaska\u2019s new <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/04\/05\/lisa-murkowski-kelly-tshibaka-poll-2022-alaska-senate-donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">all-party voting primary<\/a> could also create an opening for a Democrat if numerous GOP candidates split the vote while liberals rally behind a single contender, the Examiner reported.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would expect that the national Democrat machine will probably go into full action in the state of Alaska,\u201d said Nick Begich, the only Republican to have announced a challenge to Young prior to his death, the Examiner reported. \u201cThere will be opportunists who will see this as some way to advance their own personal trajectory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Republican Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin told Newsmax she would take over recently passed Rep. Don Young\u2019s House seat \u201cin a heartbeat\u201d if she were asked to.\u201cThink of those huge<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":205,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1393899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/205"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1393899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}