Michele Bachmann Book Signing Tour Rallies Supporters
Minnesota congress woman Michele Bachmann has gone on a book tour in an effort to garner support for her campaign that has been struggling to stay in the political conversation and to offer potential voters a different side of her.
The tour took her from Minnesota to her home state of Iowa and through to South Carolina.
In an interview before she started the tour, Bachmann said she wanted to start in Minnesota because as she put it, "I love Minnesota."
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She said it is where she finished school, met her husband and raised her five children and 23 foster children. It is also where she launched her political career, according to Pioneer Press.
She is promoting not only her campaign with this tour she is also trying to connect with her voter base which has been sparse so far in the race for the Republican nomination.
In her book she explains her experiences during her childhood as well as what it was like early in her career in Minnesota’s political arena.
She revealed that she was not invited to her junior and senior proms at Anoka High School. Bachmann also stated that she feels like a political outsider, "I still to this day haven't become part of the inside crowd when it comes to politics," according to Pioneer Press.
Bachmann said her key to victory is to not stray from her conservative principles.
"That is, if the Republican presidential nominee fails to energize key constituencies, or worse, if the nominee is seen as insincere, then we will lose," according to AP
Bachmann recently made an appearance in South Carolina. During the book signing an eight-year-old boy told Bachmann that his mother was gay but that she did not need to be fixed. A video was made of the incident and has since received over two million views on YouTube.
Bachmann has called the action “reprehensible.”
