{"id":1697778,"date":"2022-10-17T08:05:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:05:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1697778"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:05:53","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T12:05:53","slug":"alaska-republicans-call-on-kentucky-gop-to-censure-mitch-mcconnell-over-party-interference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alaska-republicans-call-on-kentucky-gop-to-censure-mitch-mcconnell-over-party-interference\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Republicans Call On Kentucky GOP To Censure Mitch McConnell Over Party Interference"},"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\">26<\/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%2Falaska-republicans-call-on-kentucky-gop-to-censure-mitch-mcconnell-over-party-interference%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=1697778&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>Alaska Republicans are calling on the Kentucky GOP to formally censure Sen. Mitch McConnell for the bluegrass senator\u2019s interference in the Alaskan Senate contest against the party-endorsed candidate. <\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, the Alaskan Republican Party\u2019s District 9 central committee passed a resolution to condemn the Senate minority leader\u2019s spending on behalf of Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The incumbent senator running for a fourth full term in the upper chamber is locked in a tight contest against Donald Trump-backed challenger Kelly Tshibaka, who is also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskasnewssource.com\/2021\/07\/11\/alaska-gop-leaders-endorse-challenger-us-sen-murkowski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed <\/a>by the Alaskan Republican Party. <\/p>\n<p>McConnell\u2019s super PAC to reclaim the majority, the Senate Leadership Fund, is spending heavily in the race between two Republicans, which the latest polls show is a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/16\/new-alaska-senate-poll-reveals-lisa-murkowski-neck-and-neck-with-kelly-tshibaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">tied match<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.adn.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/06\/independent-groups-spend-millions-on-ads-attacking-tshibaka-as-senate-race-heats-up\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to the Anchorage Daily News, McConnell\u2019s political operation has poured more than $7 million into the Alaskan contest instead of using that money towards ripe pick-up opportunities in Nevada and Arizona. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe request the Senate Leadership Fund immediately stop the attack ads against Kelly Tshibaka and discontinue all support of Senator Murkowski,\u201d District 9 Republicans demanded. Their resolution went on to demand Kentucky GOP leadership censure their senator for meddling in Alaska\u2019s party affairs while the minority leader abandons efforts at capturing the majority. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe request the Republican Party of Kentucky leadership act against Senator Mitch McConnell for his inappropriate behavior against Alaska Republicans and Republican endorsed candidate Kelly Tshibaka,\u201d the Alaska Republicans wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Alaska\u2019s District 9 committee based in Anchorage is the second state party group to admonish the Kentucky lawmaker\u2019s interference, <a href=\"https:\/\/mustreadalaska.com\/more-blowback-second-alaska-republican-committee-votes-to-censure-sen-mitch-mcconnell-for-attacking-alaska-gop-senate-candidate-kelly-tshibaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according <\/a>to Must Read Alaska columnist Suzanne Downing. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first was District 6, a Homer-area subdivision of the Alaska GOP,\u201d Downing wrote. <\/p>\n<p>In September, McConnell\u2019s PAC <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/28\/mcconnell-dumps-another-million-into-alaska-to-save-murkowski-after-ditching-arizonas-blake-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reinjected <\/a>money into the Alaska Senate contest after initially canceling $1.7 million alongside $8 million stripped from Republican Arizona Senate nominee Blake Masters. McConnell later pulled another <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/21\/mcconnell-abandons-arizona-senate-race-to-maintain-a-gop-he-can-control\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$10 million <\/a>from the Arizona race, leaving the Republican candidate abandoned by the primary super PAC charged with reclaiming the upper chamber. <\/p>\n<p>Both Masters and Tshibaka have pledged not to support McConnell for another term in GOP leadership. <\/p>\n<p>The decision to spend scarce resources on an ally in Alaska instead of a tight race in Arizona to bring down a Democrat incumbent drew <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/11\/trump-blasts-mcconnell-for-prioritizing-establishment-allies-over-a-senate-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">criticism <\/a>from former President Donald Trump on Monday. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cKelly Tshibaka is doing very well in Alaska, probably leading horrendously bad Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican (barely!),\u201d Trump wrote.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclearpolitics.com\/epolls\/2022\/senate\/az\/arizona-senate-masters-vs-kelly-7390.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">According <\/a>to the latest aggregate of surveys from RealClearPolitics, which are often manipulated to fit pre-determined narratives, the Arizona Senate race remains a five-point race. <\/p>\n<p> Tristan Justice is the western correspondent for The Federalist. He has also written for The Washington Examiner and The Daily Signal. His work has also been featured in Real Clear Politics and Fox News. Tristan graduated from George Washington University where he majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is meddling in the Alaska Senate race between two Republicans instead of working to reclaim the Senate majority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1697782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1697778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697778","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\/494"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1697782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}