Posted on 07/18/2022 4:06:23 AM PDT by cotton1706
Jeanne Shaheen offered to campaign for her. Angus King directed money to her. And Mark Warner’s open to endorsing her whenever it helps most.
No, she’s not a Democrat. She’s Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska.
“I don’t want to get Lisa in trouble … Lisa is one of my very favorite Republicans, and if the Republican Party were comprised of center-right people like her, the country would be much better off,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii). “She’s a friend. And I think it would be a loss for Alaska if she were no longer serving in the Senate.”
One thing keeping Schatz from endorsing her officially? His state party “calls for the expulsion of anybody who does that sort of thing.”
As Murkowski tries to fend off a challenge from Donald Trump-backed candidate Kelly Tshibaka, the centrist is appealing to a broad home-state coalition that contains many left-leaning Democrats and independents. Murkowski’s Senate Democratic fan club reflects the same crossover clout that helped her quash a tea-party rival 12 years ago — and the fact that many conservatives will support Tshibaka anyway.
Alaska’s new election rules installed an open, top-four primary and a ranked-choice general election runoff, allowing Murkowski to ignore appeals to her party’s right flank and embrace her elevated status among Democrats for her bipartisan positions. And rather than rebuff support across the aisle, Murkowski is hoping for as much of it as possible.
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She’s voting like a democrat if there was such a thing - dems being all Marxist now. Certainly not Republican.
Send Skeletor packing.
“Enemy of my enemy” does not equal “fan”. Murkowski and Cheney are fools if they think they have allies among the dems.
She already lost repub primary once.
Magically she won the seat via “write in” ballots against a dim and pub.
RINOs must be taught that they will not win a general election if they are the nominee. The short term pain ppl will feel when they jettison bums will be worth it.
Just came back from Alaska... Very few political signs compared to what I see here in Texas. Murkowski’s signs just say “vote LISA”. Did not see any for her opponent Kelly. Also did not see one for Palin and while there are 4 people running for that House Seat, she has the most name recognition but read an article that Alaskans are tired of Sarah. Might be a real interesting election in the 49th !
Voting Murkowski’s is like the Chicken holding hands with the Fox.....it’s just dumb as can be....Lisa is a RHINO and always will be.
Everybody knows RINOs are really just assistant Democrats.
Even with Democrat support I think Murkowski’s goose is cooked this time.
“Even with Democrat support I think Murkowski’s goose is cooked this time.”
I hope you’re right. There always seems to be another trick up their sleeve to protect these worthless people.
The FIX IS IN!
To the left, It’s like all the best women are men so as all the best republicans are democrats
The Yahoo Bolsheviks tell us the party loves her. All hail the party.
No republican should be friends with a democrat in that they support in any way any policy the democrats do.
With there no longer being a party primary in Alaska and RCV, she can be a “Republican” and not worry about its base voters - indeed, she is no even going to attempt to get those votes. She is going for Democrats / Dem leaning voters to make her their second or third choice on the RCV ballot. That is her path to victory, and she has a fair shot of making it happen - with the overwhelming majority voting against her as their first choice, she still has a very good chance of winning with this bizarre, yet effective, strategy.
And she will be worse than she has ever been if she pulls this off.
This RCV system is definitely an attempt to. Imagine, having almost 80% of the voters against you as their first choice, and you can still win by a solid margin by getting people to select you as the second or even third choice.
“Lisa Murkowski - your second and third choice candidate! For Alaska!”
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