Sarah Palin at the Iowa State Fair
- August 12, 2011

Sarah Palin made a surprise show at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines on August 12, 2011, one day before the influential Iowa Republican Straw Poll and one.

Sarah Palin's appearance at the fair, which is one of the biggest in the nation, drawing 100,000 people a day and at a time when the state is overrun with media trucks and reporters, have refueled speculation that she still may get into the presidential race for 2012.

Palin was mobbed by fans and reporters. At one point, CNN's Don Lemon got near and Palin answered quite a few questions giving unrehearsed and candid answers. They discuss the Ames debate, her potential run for president in 2012, a supposed "rivalry" between she and Michele Bachmann (which she calls ridiculous) and other issues.

"A lot of people are pitting you and Michele Bachmann against each other. Do you think that's fair? - Don Lemon

That's so passe. Just because there may happen to be two women in the race, that they would, as Michele had put it once, get in the mud and engage in some cat fighting. That's ridiculous. It's kind of even a sexist notion to consider that the two women would be kind of duking it out. No, if I'm gonna be duking it out I'm gonna be duking it out with the guys!" - Sarah Palin

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