Posted on 07/06/2022 2:14:59 PM PDT by cotton1706
An Aug. 16 GOP primary for incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, was already going to prove difficult for her reelection hopes, but voting for gun control measures in the Senate has exposed her campaign.
Before voting to expand background checks, Murkowski's campaign was fundraising on a platform to protect the Second Amendment for Alaska voters in Facebook messages, Breitbart reported.
"Lisa needs your help," one Spring ad on Facebook read. "Democrats want to take away your right to bear arms. Can you join her and stand up to the radical left to protect our Second Amendment rights?"
Another ad, bearing Biden's photo urged, according to the report: "This can't wait. The far left wants to abolish the Second Amendment. They want to take away your rights and we have to stop them."
Senate GOP primary candidate Kelly Tshibaka, who is endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has been calling out Murkowski's hypocrisy for weeks.
"Time after time, Lisa Murkowski demonstrates why people on both sides of important issues just don't trust her," Tshibaka wrote in a late-June statement. "When she visits Alaska, she pretends to be a friend of the Second Amendment, but when she's in Washington, D.C., she sides with the elites and the insiders and votes against the interests of law-abiding Alaskans. At least Democrat Pat Chesbro is honest about her support for restricting the rights of our citizens, so you know where she stands."
Tshibaka is seizing on Murkowski's vote for a Senate gun control bill that President Joe Biden signed into law June 25.
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“[In 2012] Murkowski was re-elected with 44.4% of the vote, becoming the first person in history to win three elections to the U.S. Senate with pluralities but not majorities, having taken 48.6% in 2004 and 39.5% in 2010.”
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Sounds beatable.
She’s just a traitor, a Democrat really. No surprise she rushed to undermine Alaskan gun owners.
That should be [In 2016], not [In 2012]
JUST gun rights? She needs to go. So does my UPOS NON rep cathy mantoes here in nevaDUH.
Is that nuts or what? Of all places where a gun is needed for personal survival, it's Alaska. It's not like they have a problem with uppity "teens".
Didn’t she run as an independent the last time because she lost the GOP nomination?
She was able to do it because both she and the Alaskan Republican Party are crooked
Uppity teens taste like good caribou.
She doesn’t represent Alaska, she represents the Swamp.
Kid: Daddy, are you sure Murkowski is an elephant?
Dad: Well, sometimes the brown fur, long ears and AOC style buck teeth and braying confuse me but let’s trust her that she’s a Republican, I guess.
She’s flippy and a flop! These fossils last way too long. Excellent health care for life.
Yes, and IIRC, it was the Democrat cross-over votes that got her the “win.”
She won the general election as a write-in candidate.
Will she be on the November ballot as one of four? Can she pull a fast one like she did 12 years ago. If she’s out you know she’ll support the rat.
Carpe diem
What I would like to see is Murky and the other republican on the ballot due to RCV.
Let the left scream at that!
The Alaska system is designed to keep an incumbent in office. A majority is not necessary, just a plurality. Lisa has been winning by running a stalking horse and splitting the opposition vote. She will like pull it off again.
2016, not 2012. But the point stands.
But now she has “ranked choice voting.”
In Alaska you won’t win any election, even dog catcher, if you are for gun control. Even the dems in Alaska wouldn’t think of running for election anti-guns.
Judging by the old Alaska, murky is toast, but these times are different. The left has flooded Anchorage with third world types. As Anchorage goes, so goes Alaska.
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