Palin: Kelly Ayotte Flip-Flopped on Amnesty Bill, Should Face Primary Challenge

Three years ago, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin backed Kelly Ayotte in a very hotly contested Republican primary for the Senate. Palin said that Ayotte was “Granite Grizzly” and the endorsement was a key reason why the powerful tea party support in 2010 was split between Ayotte and a primary opponent she barely defeated.

Now Palin feels differently about Ayotte. In fact, in an radio interview she suggested that Ayotte, now in the Senate, should face a primary over her “flip-flop” on immigration, as Palin put it.

“I think that every politician should be held accountable for breaking their campaign promises. Kelly Ayotte, bless her heart, she had on her website that her top immigration priority would be to secure the border. ‘No excuses’ is her quote. No excuses,” Palin said on Fox News radio to host John Gibson. “And she was absolutely against amnesty and yet Kelly Ayotte and Marco Rubio and all the others who had said that border security must come first before any talk about immigration reform they turned their back on the American public, so why should they not be held accountable?”

Gibson, the radio host, then pushed Palin, asking if Republicans should deny Rubio or Ayotte of “major office”…

“I think that they should be challenged,” Palin said

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