{"id":1610411,"date":"2022-08-17T09:48:56","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:48:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1610411"},"modified":"2022-08-17T09:49:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:49:03","slug":"fate-of-trump-targets-in-tuesdays-elections-cheney-loses-and-murkowski-survives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fate-of-trump-targets-in-tuesdays-elections-cheney-loses-and-murkowski-survives\/","title":{"rendered":"Fate of Trump Targets in Tuesday\u2019s Elections: Cheney Loses and Murkowski Survives"},"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\">24<\/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%2Ffate-of-trump-targets-in-tuesdays-elections-cheney-loses-and-murkowski-survives%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=1610411&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--><p>Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-lisa-murkowski\">Lisa Murkowski<\/a> (R-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-alaska\">Alaska<\/a>), targeted for ousting from office by former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-donald-trump\">Donald Trump<\/a>, survived her Aug. 16 primary election against 18 challengers, but will still face a Trump-endorsee in the general election come November.<\/p>\n<p>But another Congressional colleague facing Trump\u2019s ire heard a sobering pronouncement from voters in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-wyoming\">Wyoming<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Constituents resoundingly agreed it was time for Rep. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/t-liz-cheney\">Liz Cheney<\/a> to pack her bags and head home from Washington, D.C. after three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/06\/23\/lisa-murkowski-1200x800.jpg\"><\/a> Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) speaks to reporters in Washington on May 18, 2022. (Drew Angerer\/Getty Images) <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, in Alaska, Trump opponent Murkowski managed to survive her reelection bid for her U.S. Senate seat, for now.<\/p>\n<p>Her survival can be credited solely to new rules in the state that allow the top four finishers to advance to the fall general election, said Charles Bullock, a political science professor at the University of Georgia. Voters in Alaska approved the change to the process, called ranked-choice voting.<\/p>\n<p>And if \u201cshe had been running in a situation like Lisa Murkowski,\u201d Cheney might have been \u201cable to survive,\u201d too, Bullock said.<\/p>\n<p>Twelve years ago, Murkowski almost was tripped up in a reelection bid, and had to find an unconventional path to victory.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe lost the Republican nomination, but then she won her seat by running as a write-in candidate. So she got the Republican votes who\u2019d voted for the minority Republicans back in that Republican primary. But then she also picked up a chunk of Independents\u201d and Democrats, Bullock said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe is the only incumbent U.S. Senator ever reelected with a write-in, and only the second person ever elected to the Senate, at all, with a write-in,\u201d noted Bullock, an elections historian. \u201cThe first one was [South Carolina Democrat] Strom Thurmond back in 1954.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Now, the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), targeted for ousting from office by former President Donald Trump, survived her Aug. 16 primary election against 18 challengers, but will still face a Trump-endorsee in the general election come November. But another Congressional colleague facing Trump\u2019s ire heard a sobering pronouncement from voters in Wyoming. 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