Posted on 08/25/2024 6:34:19 AM PDT by cotton1706
Alaska Republicans are looking to avoid a repeat of the midterms, when they lost the state’s lone House seat to Rep. Mary Peltola after the party failed to coalesce around a single opponent in the Last Frontier’s ranked-choice system.
Peltola finished first in this week’s top-four nonpartisan primary, followed by Republicans Nick Begich and Lt. Gov Nancy Dahlstrom (R), according to the latest tallies from Decision Desk HQ. But Dahlstrom, backed by former President Trump, bowed out of the race on Friday as her party looks to consolidate support.
“I entered this race because Alaskans deserve better representation than what we have received from Mary Peltola in Washington,” Dahlstrom said in a statement shared to X. “At this time, the best thing I can do to see that goal realized is to withdraw my name from the general election ballot and end my campaign.”
Dahlstrom’s exit comes two years after the midterms, when the ranked-choice system debuted and Peltola flipped the seat blue for the first time in decades in a special election to fill out the rest of the late Rep. Don Young’s (R) term. She went on to win a full term that fall, amid a GOP divided over Begich and former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who criticized the voting setup as confusing.
Despite the ranked-choice setup, many Begich and Palin supporters didn’t rank the other GOP contender as their second pick, or left their second-choice slot blank, according to an analysis from Cook Political Report.
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But the ACTUAL Democrat will be ousted in November, and likely the Ranked-Choice-Voting scheme along with her.
Then, if Begich decides to begin voting like his liberal family, he can be ousted as well.
We'll see.
We’re slow but we eventually get it.
Peltola got more votes than the Republicans combined.
It was a primary. Don't read too much into it. A lot more Republicans and independents will vote in the general election. And this time there won't be a self-serving Republican to split the vote.
Begich initially filed to run against Don Young to primary him for being too liberal for a Republican. Young passed away in office before this primary could take place...and even so, ranked-choice voting was passed in the interim would eliminated party primaries.
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