Sarah Palin is looking to return to politics. The former Alaska governor said that she is considering a run for the Senate in 2014.
“I’ve considered it because people have requested me considering it, but I’m still waiting to see what the lineup will be and hoping that … there will be some new blood, some new energy,” Palin said on Sean Hannity’s radio show Tuesday, reports Politico.
The Alaska Senate seat that’s up for grabs in 2014 is currently held by first-term Democrat Mark Begich. Lt. Gov. Mead Treadwell and 2010 GOP nominee Joe Miller are the two Republicans who have already announced plans to run for the seat.
Newsbusters reports that later in the interview, Palin told Hannity, “I’m glad you brought that up. Because Senator Mark Begich (D-Ak.) has got to be replaced. He has not done what he has promised to do for the people of Alaska.”
Palin did sound reluctant to commit to running for the seat, though. After all, just last month, she reunited with Fox News and has already started contributing to the conservative network again.
“Any American with a heart for service has to always have in the back of their mind that they would do anything [and] everything that they could to help the cause – even if perhaps it’s something that doesn’t look necessarily appealing or necessarily fitting in with a conventional plan that they would try to orchestrate for themselves and their family,” Palin told Hannity, notes Politico. “I, along with anybody, would have to say that I would do whatever I could to help. And you know if that was part of that help, then it would have to be considered.”
Palin unsuccessfully ran as Vice President with John McCain in 2008 and resigned from the Alaska governor’s office in 2009 before she finished her first term. In addition to her work on Fox News, she’s tried her hand at reality shows with TLC’s Sarah Palin’s Alaska and continues to speak at Republican events.
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