Politics

Todd Palin in intensive care after snowmobile accident

Sarah Palin’s husband was injured in a serious snowmobile crash and hospitalized in intensive care — but she still appeared at a Donald Trump rally in Florida on Monday.

Palin was forced to cancel a morning campaign event in The Villages, Florida after Todd Palin’s accident in Alaska, she said.

But that afternoon, she gave a stump speech in Tampa ahead of the state’s primary Tuesday.

Todd and Sarah Palin ride a snowmobile in Alaska in February 2007.AP

“Thank you guys for your prayers for my husband who is recovering after a little wreck on a snow machine…big wreck,” she said before introducing New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie.

Trump also addressed the crash at the rally, saying, “Her husband’s a tough cookie but when you’re too tough you break ribs every once in a while, right?”

Earlier in the day, Trump’s camp announced Palin would not appear at the first campaign event.

“Todd Palin was in a bad snow machine accident last night and is currently hospitalized. Gov. Palin is returning to Alaska to be with her husband and looks forward to being back on the campaign trail soon. Mr. Trump’s thoughts and prayers are with the Palin family at this time,” a rep for Donald Trump said in a statement.

But Palin quickly switched from talk of the accident to politics.

“You know when real life happens, someone is sick in your family or there is an accident that happens, all these challenges… it really puts things in perspective. It makes me appreciate the time we have to spend doing something so worthy — and that’s to get Donald J. Trump elected president,” she proclaimed.

She went on to bash protesters who disrupted a Trump rally in Ohio on Saturday.

“What we don’t have time for is that petty punk ass thuggery stuff [from] these quote unquote protesters,” she said.

Palin, the 2008 vice presidential nominee, endorsed Trump in January.