{"id":1513227,"date":"2022-06-13T08:35:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T12:35:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513227"},"modified":"2022-06-13T09:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-06-13T13:12:28","slug":"sarah-palin-leads-primary-opponents-in-first-round-of-alaska-primary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sarah-palin-leads-primary-opponents-in-first-round-of-alaska-primary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin Leads Primary Opponents In First Round Of Alaska Primary"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsarah-palin-leads-primary-opponents-in-first-round-of-alaska-primary%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1513227&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Sarah Palin earned a 10-point victory in a special primary for Alaska\u2019s sole congressional seat Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The special election is the first round in a two-part election series that is set to fill the vacancy left by the death of former Congressman Don Young.<\/p>\n<p>Young, 88, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/18\/breaking-rep-don-young-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">lost consciousness and passed away suddenly<\/a> earlier in the year aboard a commercial flight from L.A. to Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly after Young\u2019s death, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/03\/22\/heartbeat-sarah-palin-don-young-seat-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palin expressed interest<\/a> in running for his seat. About ten days later, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/04\/02\/sarah-palin-congressional-run-announces-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Palin officially announced her candidacy<\/a>. Former President Donald Trump, who Palin supported in 2016, returned the favor by <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/wireStory\/trump-endorses-palin-bid-alaskas-sole-house-seat-83869341\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">swiftly endorsing Palin<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Palin ran against an eclectic, forty-eight-person assortment of primary opponents, which included everything from Nick Begich, the <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Politics\/sarah-palin-advances-santa-claus-crowded-primary-alaska\/story?id=85342776\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span class=\"RgZq Sdrij JjGwO WCiji\"><span class=\"OFDsq nvbxj HzcXo\">co-chair for Young\u2019s 2020 reelection campaign,<\/span><\/span> to St. Nick<\/a>. With roughly 72% of votes reported as of Sunday night, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/2022-primary-special-elections\/alaska-house-results\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NBC and others have called the race for Palin<\/a> at 29.8%, Begich at 19.3%, Al Gross at 12.5%, and Mary Petola at 7.5%.<\/p>\n<p>While several states have experimented with different forms of elections in recent years, Alaska\u2019s special election primary is the first top-four congressional primary in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p>Palin\u2019s official Twitter account put out a message that celebrated her victory. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to the special general election so we can highlight our ideas for fixing this country by responsibly developing Alaska\u2019s God-given natural resources, getting runaway government spending under control, protecting human life, protecting the right to keep and bear arms, and restoring respect for individual liberty and the Constitution,\u201d Palin wrote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Thank you Alaska! \u2764\ufe0f\ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/wlMSaOneqS\">pic.twitter.com\/wlMSaOneqS<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sarah Palin (@SarahPalinUSA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahPalinUSA\/status\/1535878120099655680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Students for Trump, a Pro-Trump student organization, tweeted their congratulations to Palin.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Congratulations <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TPAction_?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TPAction_<\/a> endorsed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahPalinUSA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@SarahPalinUSA<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>Alaska is ready to send a strong America First conservative to Drain the Swamp!<\/p>\n<p>We are excited to see her back in the fight to save America! \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf2 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0GS157RqbB\">pic.twitter.com\/0GS157RqbB<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Students For Trump (@TrumpStudents) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TrumpStudents\/status\/1536069639448371200?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Palin will face off against Begich, Gross, and Petola again in the special general election, which will be held Aug. 16, 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sarah Palin earned a 10-point victory in a special primary for Alaska\u2019s sole congressional seat Saturday.The special election is the first round in a two-part election series that is set<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":1513383,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1513227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1513227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1513227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1513383"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1513227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1513227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1513227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}