Sarah Palin won't be at the Republican convention because Alaska is really far from Cleveland

Sarah Palin will not go to the GOP convention.

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published 14 July 2016

Sarah Palin will be missing from the Republican National Convention next week because Ohio is "a long ways away" from Alaska, Donald Trump has said.

The 2008 running mate to Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) endorsed Trump in January, which some predicted by tracking a private plane's flight from Anchorage to Iowa, where Trump was holding a rally. Because that's what planes are for — taking people to places that are far away.

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The fight from Anchorage to Cleveland generally takes about eight hours.

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