Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump said Wednesday that Sarah Palin could play a role in his administration, should he win the White House. The real estate mogul's comments came just one day after Palin's endorsement in Iowa.
Speaking Wednesday morning to NBC's Today Show host Savannah Guthrie, Trump said Palin likely wouldn't be a vice presidential pick because he did not think "it'd be something that she'd want to do."
"She’s been through that, and interestingly, Savannah, this is a 100 percent fact, when she came to see me and she talked to me, I could see that she really liked what we were saying," he added.
Trump said that Palin did not place any demands on the endorsement. "She never made a deal, like so many people want to try and make deals. I mean, she just said: I really like what's going on, it's an amazing thing, I've never seen anything like it in politics," he said, according to Politico.
Trump also noted that Palin's endorsement was a real boon to his campaign, especially ahead of the Iowa caucuses, when other candidates would have liked her support.
"It's such an honor, because as you know, very badly, so many people are so disappointed that she didn't support them," he said. "But certainly there'd be a role in the administration if she wanted, and I'm not sure that she does want that. But there'd certainly be a role."
Before Palin formally announced her endorsement of Trump on Tuesday, a top aide for Ted Cruz said that they would be "deeply disappointed" if Palin endorsed Trump.
"I think it would be a blow to Sarah Palin, because Sarah Palin has been a champion of the conservative cause and if she was going to endorse Donald Trump, sadly she would be endorsing someone who's held progressive views all their life on the sanctity of life, on marriage, on partial-birth abortion, he supported [the] TARP bailout - it goes on and on and on," said Rick Tyler, communications director for the Cruz campaign, according to the Hill. "Donald Trump claims he's changed all those views. But I think if it was Sarah Palin, let me just say I would be deeply disappointed."
