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Murkowski advances in Alaska Senate race
The (s)Hill ^ | 8/17/2022 | by Julia Manchester

Posted on 08/17/2022 4:39:28 AM PDT by Lazamataz

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was projected to advance from the state’s Republican Senate primary, setting her up to compete in November’s midterm general election.

The Associated Press made the call at 1:41 p.m. ET.

The incumbent senator was widely expected to advance from the all-party primary in which the top four vote-getters advanced to the general election.

The primary was seen as a test for former President Trump’s endorsement. Trump backed Murkowski’s primary challenger Kelly Tschibaka in the wake of Murkowski’s vote to convict him in his second impeachment trial.

Tschibaka was also projected to advance early Wednesday morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; associatedpress; juliamanchester; kellytschibaka; lisamurkowski; murkowski; thehill; theshill
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61 posted on 08/17/2022 7:42:49 AM PDT by GOP Poet (Super cool you can change your tag line EVERYTIME you post!! :D. (Small things make me happy))
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To: Lazamataz

We got rid of Cheney (at least at a Congressional level) and we gained Sarah Palin.


not exactly.
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Sarah did advance to Nov for electing the two year term starting in jan 23..,,but whoever becomes incumbent will be favored. Sarah in second for serving from now to remainder of this term.. about 1/3 remain to be counted and Aug 31 is when final counting occurs after third place is eliminated and the choice#2’s get added in in....
begich is McConnell’s boy. Peltola is the snow indian (D) anchorage news refers to her as a salmon activist
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this could be a lot worse but i’d guess McConnell told his RINO’s to vote for salmon over Palin.so i dunno if they will do that? otherwise Palin would have a chance to pass the D if R’s rank her second.
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Alaska At-Large Special
Votes Percent (67%)
Peltola 56,892 37.8
Palin 48,304 32.1
Begich 43,038 28.6


62 posted on 08/17/2022 7:45:42 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: Lazamataz

I guess they mistyped. I think they meant am


63 posted on 08/17/2022 7:47:44 AM PDT by Deplorable American1776 (Defund the FBI, the American Stasi..)
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To: Lazamataz

Alaska has a crazy system (”ranked choice”) which they implemented for the first time this year.

Basically it’s not worth voting, because if your candidate comes in last, your candidate and your votes are removed and added to the totals of the other candidates...the lowest one is then removed...and so on.

We need to go back to closed primaries, where you have one person voting in person for another person of their party on election day (although as in the past, accommodations can be made for people who are home-bound, traveling or for some other legitimate reason can’t make it on election day). Even a couple of days of early IN-PERSON voting would be okay.

But no open primaries, ranked choice, mail-ins for all, etc.


64 posted on 08/17/2022 7:55:31 AM PDT by livius
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To: Lazamataz
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) was projected to advance from the state’s Republican Senate primary,

There was no "Republican Senate primary" - no such thing as party nominees in Alaska anymore with the open jungle primaries.

65 posted on 08/17/2022 7:56:05 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Track9

Based on these results she is in a very strong position. She will only need 6% of the voters to select her as the second choice in the general election if she holds the level of support she has in this primary.


66 posted on 08/17/2022 8:01:23 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: wiseprince

If she holds this level of support in the general election, literally the only hope would be if 0% of Tshibaka supporters rank her as the second or third choice. However, even that won’t be enough if she holds this level of support and Democrats do rank Murkowski as a second or third choice. She would win easily. Something has to occur to sour Murkowski’s appeal, but I suspect she actually has no appeal and this is merely the Democrats uniting behind her to stick it to Trump...how do we undo that motivation?


67 posted on 08/17/2022 8:04:15 AM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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To: Impy; fieldmarshaldj

1. Murk will be re-elected (by Dem voters)
2. Palin sworn in around 9/1 ?

3. Freepers can’t figure out the Alaska system ... which means?


68 posted on 08/17/2022 8:16:02 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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To: Track9

“I believe VDH gives her no chance in the general.”

What is VDH and who is her?


69 posted on 08/17/2022 8:23:53 AM PDT by bosco24 (EOD)
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To: Col Frank Slade

What’s wrong with Alaska? Democrats and Rinos.


70 posted on 08/17/2022 8:28:55 AM PDT by dragonblustar (Romans 12:12)
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To: Lazamataz; AuH2ORepublican; fieldmarshaldj

The author at The Hill is Julia Manchester.

I am wondering if she is the granddaughter of William & Julia Manchester (the author)


71 posted on 08/17/2022 8:29:08 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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To: Republican Wildcat

Her Supreme Court support for pro choice justices. That needs to be hammered home. It won’t help her on the right but will sour her on the left. Also, tax cut bill. Fight her like it were a Democrat primary.


72 posted on 08/17/2022 8:30:46 AM PDT by wiseprince (Me,)
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To: Lazamataz

Kelly also advanced so I read. I realized I don’t understand Alaskan elections. They advanced not won. Must as screwed up as California.


73 posted on 08/17/2022 8:45:40 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Mozilla

Must be...


74 posted on 08/17/2022 8:46:05 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Mozilla

Newsweek:
Alaska’s Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski and Trump-endorsed fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka have advanced to the general election from Tuesday’s primary, according to preliminary results.


75 posted on 08/17/2022 8:47:28 AM PDT by Mozilla
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To: Mozilla
Alaska’s Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski and Trump-endorsed fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka have advanced to the general election from Tuesday’s primary, according to preliminary results.

I was actually impressed with Kelly's showing. She could pull this off in the general.

76 posted on 08/17/2022 8:49:52 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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To: Robert DeLong

If the millions of Dark Many had not flooded in Ak to push this insane voting method - the R party would have had a closed primary

And L Mur Cow Ski would be history - again.

Alaska doesn’t need ranked voting, it needs a “Sore Loser” law.

Voted for Kelly as the mass of Dark Dough (Dem $$$) was spent to vilify Kelly - that tells me all I need to know.


77 posted on 08/17/2022 8:52:40 AM PDT by ASOC (This space for rent)
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To: campaignPete R-CT

“2. Palin sworn in around 9/1 ?”

I don’t see how we can say with certainty right now that it won’t be the DEMOCRAT being sworn in around 9/1. All that we do know for sure is that it won’t be any earlier than that.

That’s because the vote counters in Alaska have reserved themselves a couple of weeks (until 8/31) to play the Rigged Choice Voting three-card-monte/shell game and keep shifting votes from this candidate to that candidate and then they’ll ask us to believe that the outcome is totally valid and fraud-proof.

Maybe the outcome *will* be what we are all hoping for, but nobody without a working crystal ball can declare that enough Begich voters will “hold their noses” and vote for Palin — whom LOTS of them despise — instead of leaving their #2 ballot slot blank or even voting for the ultra-liberal Democrat.

That isn’t some phenomenon unique to Alaska; RINO voters in states like PA (Mastriano), Ohio (Vance), North Carolina (Budd), Arizona (Lake & Masters), Kansas (Kobach in the AG race) are already obviously running over to the loony left and supporting Democrats over conservatives whom they fear and loathe (as opposed to their feelings about liberal Democrats).


78 posted on 08/17/2022 8:53:12 AM PDT by PermaRag (We have SO many targets, and -- for now -- the means to see they get what they deserve.)
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To: PermaRag

Except Begich is not a moderate nor a RINO.

One could argue that he’s more conservative than Palin.


79 posted on 08/17/2022 9:10:09 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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To: Mozilla; Impy; fieldmarshaldj; AuH2ORepublican; BillyBoy; LS

Dudes,

I could argue that the real battle in the 2 primaries was for 4th place. With that in mind, for whom would you have voted?

Kelley for Senate? Populist Right. Bring more voters out in Nov?

In the House primary, the libertarians did poorly. It’s not clear whom the Sweeney voters will go for.


80 posted on 08/17/2022 9:18:34 AM PDT by campaignPete R-CT (I owe, I owe, it's off to work I go ...)
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