Breaking: Sarah Palin Advances in Race for Alaska’s Only House Seat
Sarah Palin, former Republican vice presidential nominee and former Alaska governor, advanced in the primary on Tuesday in a bid to win the state’s sole House seat in November, the Associated Press projected.
The top four candidates advanced, regardless of party, due to Alaska’s new election system. Palin will face Democrat Mary Peltola, Republican Nick Begich, and one other still unknown candidate in the general election.
Palin was endorsed by Donald Trump when she launched her campaign, who said, “Wonderful patriot Sarah Palin just announced that she is running for Congress, and that means there will be a true America First fighter on the ballot.”
The candidates are also competing in a special general election to fill the remaining months of the late Representative Don Young’s term, which ends in January. The former representative was the longest serving member of the current Congress and died at the age of 88 in March.
The special election used ranked choice voting, an election method approved by Alaska residents in 2020. In ranked choice, voters rank their preferred candidates, and the candidates are then eliminated one by one based on the number of first choice preferences they received.
The results of the special election will not be known at least until August 31, when the results will be tabulated.
Palin bashed the ranked-choice voting system in a statement issued on election night.
“Today is the first test case of the crazy, convoluted, undesirable ranked-choice voting system, and to everyone who’s watching from Outside tonight, I say: Please, learn from Alaska’s mistake. Voters are confused and angry, and feel disenfranchised by this cockamamie system that makes it impossible to trust that your vote will even be counted the way you intended. We’ll keep fighting to equip Alaskans with the information they need to make sure their voices are heard amidst this Leftist-crafted system – no matter how hard the corrupt political establishment works to silence us,” she said.
Sarah Palin Advances in Race for Alaska’s Only House Seat
She is also running in a special election to fill the late Representative Don Young’s seat for the remainder ... READ MORE
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