Sarah Palin stopped by the 2016 Florida Strawberry Festival to endorse presidential candidate Donald Trump Sunday, March 13.
"He's candid and what he says is not memorized or teleprompter-fed rhetoric that a typical politician does, and I think that, you know, that's something America is ready for too," Palin said.
Crowds swarmed the former Alaskan governor as she met the Parkesdale family and made shortcake at the St Clement Catholic Church strawberry shortcake booth. Parkesdale's matriarch, Helen Parke, gave Palin a flat of strawberries and posed for pictures.
"She's like you, she talks like you," Parke said. "You expect the festival to be a small thing."
Palin made her shortcake with cake instead of biscuit before posing for more pictures outside of the Parke Building on the festival grounds. Florida Strawberry Festival General Manager Paul Davis, Florida Strawberry Festival President Dan Walden, Plant City Mayor Rick Lott, Plant City Commissioner Mike Sparkman and many redcoats bid her farewell after about an hour visit.
She had traveled from an appearance at the Arcadia All Florida Championship Rodeo at noon. Her campaign stops are timed for Florida's presidential primary election on Tuesday, March 15. The winner of the Republican primary will receive 99 delegates.
Palin, John McCain's 2008 running mate, is the second woman and first Republican female to run for vice president on a United States major party's ticket.