Posted on 06/14/2021 5:07:48 PM PDT by cotton1706
Kelly Tshibaka, the conservative Republican Senate candidate challenging establishment incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in Alaska, released her first television ad of the 2022 election on Monday, over a year ahead of the primary matchup.
The ad features the conservative candidate detailing her own Alaska story, highlighting her conservative values and her roots as her parents rose from homelessness to the middle class after moving to the Last Frontier State in the 1970s.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
She hit all the right points. Question is, is she for real or just another chameleon waiting to change color after she’s elected. Either way, it’s hard to imagine her being any worse than Murkowski.
If I only contribute to one campaign next year it’ll be hers. I hope Murkowski will pack it in if she’s denied the nomination, but with all that money coming from McConnell’s PAC and corporate money, she’ll probably run as an independent again. If that happens Tshibaka will need a ton of money for the general too.
I’ll say it again...I support Kelly Tshibaka!
FYI...there will be no GOP "primary matchup." Party primaries were done away with in Alaska - it will be a jungle primary with the top 4 finishers going to the general election, and with ranked choice voting.
She presents herself very well in this ad - good introduction. Hopefully she is well funded to keep these ads going.
She didn’t run as an independent last time around - she ran as a write-in, and was able to run as a Republican despite losing the official nomination under Alaska’s laws at the time.
This time around there are no party primaries - it is a jungle primary with the top 4 finishers going on to the general election ballot, and the general election will have ranked choice balloting - the Murkowski strategy will probably be to target Dem voters to make her the second choice, like she targeted them last time to write her name in as the candidate who brings home the bacon.
I’ve seen ranked voting where if no one gets an outright majority of first choices, then the second choice votes get added to the first choices to determine who winds up in the top two runoff. Or will they just add the second choice votes to the first choices with no runoff if no one gets a majority of firsts?
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