Begich announced a run against Don Young in the primary years ago (prior to ranked choice and jungle primaries) to oust him from the right. He continued to run after Young’s death and after the primary rules were changed. A handful around here falsely claimed he got into the race to split the vote from Sarah Palin, when he was running well before she ever announced and also was running to challenge Don Young as an incumbent, something Palin was not going to do.
“A handful around here falsely claimed he got into the race to split the vote from Sarah Palin, when he was running well before she ever announced”
Quite right. I love Sarah but she screwed the pooch on this one, didn’t learn anything from the special election outcome in August, and muddied the waters again in November instead of withdrawing.