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Former vice-presidential pick and Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin came to Denver on Friday to complain more about establishment Republicans who oppose Donald Trump,聽the presumptive Republican nominee for president, than she went after Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton.

Palin railed on the “establishment con game” that has aligned against Trump.

“What do they know about common-sense conservatism?” Palin said, blaming them for illegal immigration and Obama accomplishments.

“They bent over for all those things and now they fret about ideological purity?” Palin said.

Palin聽called intraparty opponents “Republicans Against Trump — or rats.”

Voters “are so sick and tired of being betrayed,” Palin said at the opening of the seventh annual at the Colorado Convention, billed as the largest annual gathering of conservatives outside Washington, D.C.

“Trump is winning because he puts you first,” she told the crowd.

Palin聽spoke Friday morning to a half-empty 4,000-seat hall, though the summit doesn’t usually start until Friday night.

Palin joked about protesters outside the convention center, suggesting Trump should hold his rallies at a construction site, because she said聽protesters聽wouldn’t show up where physical labor is done.

She called rallies for Democrats “cranky” and “shrill” in contrast to the energy at Trump rallies, though some of Trump’s rallies have resulted in violence.

She said the political left refused to understand radical Islam, which said, “Put the I in ISIS.”

Politicians in both parties are addicted to other people’s money, she added.

Palin gave a shout-out to fellow conservative Darryl Glenn, the Colorado GOP nominee for U.S. Senate, whom she has endorsed.

Attendees shared pro-Trump sentiments in the hall鈥檚 jovial atmosphere before the event.

They gave a standing ovation to Colorado state Rep. Clarice Navarro聽of Pueblo, a rising star in the state GOP.

“I’m a conservative, Hispanic-American woman, and I’m ready to make America great again,” Navarro said to applause.

Summit participant John Ewen predicted disruptions and vitriol, both in the hall and out on the streets.

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The crowd was mostly middle-aged and older, save about 200 students from around the country from the Young Conservatives Leadership Conference, many but not all of them supporting Trump.

Ewen took issue with Trump鈥檚 decision not to come to the Colorado Republican state nominating convention in April.

鈥淚 think he can win Colorado … they really have to get their message down to policy, and be very exact,” he said. “As far as the economy, they have to get down to the actual numbers.鈥�

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The Western Conservative Summit continues until Sunday afternoon with an expected crows of more than 4,000 attendees from across the country. Former presidential candidate Carly Fiorina is expected to deliver a keynote speech Saturday night.

She in the Denver summit’s presidential straw poll of attendees last year. , just behind former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, who in February, the third withdrawal from a GOP field that once included 17 candidates.