WASHINGTON (CNN) – Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will headline a major fundraising dinner for congressional Republicans in June, stepping back into the national spotlight after keeping a relatively low profile since the November elections.
Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee, has made a handful of trips outside of Alaska since the election, but has skipped prominent gatherings such as the Conservative Political Action Conference held last month in the nation’s capital.
Still, Palin remains a favorite of social conservatives, and in a February CNN/Opinion Research Corporation Poll was the candidate that Republicans said they would most likely support in 2012. In that poll, Palin received 29 percent, while former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee got 26 percent and former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney drew 21 percent. Huckabee and Romney both unsuccessfully sought the GOP presidential nomination last year.
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