{"id":92314,"date":"2017-09-22T13:43:58","date_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/alabama-senate-race-palin-and-gorka-rip-trump-backed-establishment-pick-rally-for-roy-moore.html"},"modified":"2017-09-22T13:43:58","modified_gmt":"2017-09-22T13:43:58","slug":"alabama-senate-race-palin-and-gorka-rip-trump-backed-establishment-pick-rally-for-roy-moore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/political\/alabama-senate-race-palin-and-gorka-rip-trump-backed-establishment-pick-rally-for-roy-moore.html","title":{"rendered":"Alabama Senate race: Palin and Gorka rip Trump-backed \u2018establishment\u2019 pick, rally for Roy Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n Ex-Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka (L) and former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin stand with Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker (R) as they campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore at the Historic Union Station Train Shed in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S., September 21, 2017. REUTERS\/Tami Chappell – RC1F2593ACA0<\/p>\n

MONTGOMERY, Ala. \u2013 \u00a0<\/span>Sarah Palin returned to the campaign trail Thursday night to rally support for Judge Roy Moore in the Alabama Senate race, armed with a pitch heavy on anti-GOP establishment criticism.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019re sending Trump someone who has our back — not Mitch McConnell\u2019s,\u201d Palin told a raucous crowd of hundreds.<\/p>\n

President Trump endorsed the other candidate in this race, Sen. Luther Strange, who was appointed in February to fill the seat left open by Jeff Sessions when he became attorney general.<\/p>\n

But Palin, the former 2008 Republican vice presidential nominee, insisted that backing Moore is not an act of defiance toward Trump.<\/p>\n

\u201cA vote for Judge Moore isn\u2019t a vote against the president, it is a vote for the people\u2019s agenda that elected the president,\u201d Palin said.<\/p>\n

And there are former Trump administration officials and current Republican members of Congress who agree.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n


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Sebastian Gorka, who served as a White House adviser until August, joined Palin on stage in Montgomery last night.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll you need to know is that Luther Strange is endorsed by Mitch McConnell,\u201d Gorka told Fox News in an interview.\u00a0 \u201cHe is a creature of the establishment, that\u2019s why we can\u2019t support him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Gorka says Moore stands for the things that made Trump popular as a candidate, so he isn\u2019t afraid to buck his former boss in this race.\u00a0<\/p>\n

ALABAMA CANDIDATES SPAR OVER TRUMP ENDORSEMENT<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cThis isn\u2019t about endorsements, this is about the original agenda that got a billionaire real estate mogul from New York elected to the White House,\u201d Gorka said.<\/p>\n

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, was here for Moore as well, and suggested the president\u2019s endorsement of Strange was a miscalculation.<\/p>\n

\u201cSometimes he gets bad advice,\u201d Gohmert said on Trump, before insisting he wants him to win re-election in 2020.<\/p>\n

The president gets a chance to make his case Friday in Huntsville, where he plans to take Air Force One for an arena rally on behalf of Sen. Strange.<\/p>\n

On Friday morning, Trump posted the latest in a string of pro-Strange tweets: \u201cWill be in Alabama tonight. Luther Strange has gained mightily since my endorsement, but will be very close. He loves Alabama, and so do I!\u201d<\/p>\n

Peter Doocy is currently a Washington D.C.-based correspondent for FOX News Channel (FNC).\u00a0 He joined the network in 2009 as a general assignment reporter based in the New York bureau.<\/p>\n

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Ex-Trump adviser Sebastian Gorka (L) and former vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin stand with Alabama Supreme Court Justice Tom Parker (R) as they campaign for U.S. Senate candidate Judge Roy Moore at the Historic Union Station Train Shed in Montgomery, Alabama, U.S., September 21, 2017. REUTERS\/Tami Chappell – RC1F2593ACA0 MONTGOMERY, Ala. \u2013 \u00a0Sarah Palin returned to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[84],"class_list":["post-92314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political","tag-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}