I’m not saying Murkowski shouldn’t be primaried and soundly defeated, but I will say that in a 50-50 senate with dems desperately looking for any way of advancing their agenda at any cost, a bitter and unwanted Murkowski on her way out of office with nothing to lose can be incredibly dangerous. Would she trade votes on HR1 (nationalizing elections to ensure dems win) and whatever budget busting spending the dems want in exchange for say... a cabinet position as Secretary of Energy or something like that? Absolutely she would.
There is no such thing as a primary, in the conventional sense of the word, in Alaska anymore thanks to Rigged Choice Voting. Murkowski is *guaranteed* to be on the November ballot unless she dies prior to that time.
Then, in the much-less-than-likely chance she is defeated, she and the rest of her fellow Democrats will only have from November through the end of the session to get their legislation passed. That's more than enough of course, but not as much as if she were defeated in the August "primary".