{"id":1700297,"date":"2022-10-17T14:18:17","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1700297"},"modified":"2022-10-17T14:18:22","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T18:18:22","slug":"palin-begich-urge-alaskans-to-rank-the-red-to-keep-democrat-from-winning-ranked-choice-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/palin-begich-urge-alaskans-to-rank-the-red-to-keep-democrat-from-winning-ranked-choice-vote\/","title":{"rendered":"Palin, Begich Urge Alaskans To \u2018Rank The Red\u2019 To Keep Democrat From Winning Ranked-Choice Vote"},"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\">30<\/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%2Fpalin-begich-urge-alaskans-to-rank-the-red-to-keep-democrat-from-winning-ranked-choice-vote%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=1700297&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 Republican House candidates Sarah Palin and Nick Begich continue to attack one another while urging voters to \u201crank the red\u201d to ensure the GOP wins in the state\u2019s ranked-choice vote.<\/p>\n<p>Democrat Mary Peltola won an August special election under the new system despite winning just 40% of the preliminary vote, a concern both Palin and Begich hope to avoid in November.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had to swallow my pride, because here I am saying, \u2018These are the cards that we\u2019ve been dealt,\u2019\u201d Palin said, <a href=\"https:\/\/alaskapublic.org\/2022\/10\/10\/palin-and-begich-both-say-rank-the-red-while-diverging-in-style\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">according to<\/a> Alaska Public Media. \u201cThis is the rule of the road now. We have ranked-choice voting, and until that\u2019s gone, we have to rank the red.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Palin previously encouraged voters to choose only one candidate in the state\u2019s August special election to replace the late Rep. Don Young. The move proved harmful for the party, with both GOP candidates seeking to improve in the general election that will determine the state\u2019s House member for the next two years.<\/p>\n<p>Begich and Palin have now both asked supporters to vote for their Republican opponent as the second person on their ballot in the effort to return Alaska to conservative leadership.<\/p>\n<p>The August special election saw Peltola receive 40%, Palin 31%, and Begich 28% in the first round. Since no single candidate received at least half of the votes, the top two candidates remained, with the second-place votes added from those who chose Begich as their first choice. Peltola then defeated Palin 51.5% to 48.5%.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to Palin, Begich, and Peltola, Libertarian Chris Bye will also join the November ballot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am running because both primary political parties have run this nation into the ground. They both have forsaken Freedom and Liberty by transitioning away from governance and towards activism and corporate protectionism,\u201d Bye said in his <a href=\"https:\/\/ballotpedia.org\/Chris_Bye\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">response<\/a> to Ballotpedia\u2019s Candidate Connection survey.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaskan race could also have a key impact on the balance of power in the House. Democrats currently hold the majority with a slight advantage, but numerous polls predict a red wave of GOP wins that could flip the lead to Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Wire previously <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/i-never-retreat-sarah-palin-calls-for-fellow-gop-candidate-to-drop-from-house-race\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a> that Begich had called for Palin to drop out of the general election campaign after the special election loss to unite Republicans. Palin replied in a news conference shortly after the request to argue that she never retreats.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe keeps calling me a quitter,\u201d Palin said during the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/watch\/?v=426992799501883\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news conference<\/a>\u00a0outside her Wasilla home. \u201cNow he wants me, the one who is clearly the only true conservative in this race who can win, he wants me to quit! Now that\u2019s the real joke. Sorry, Nick. I never retreat. I reload.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alaska voters approved ranked-choice voting in 2020, with the August primary as the first time the system was used in a House race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska Republican House candidates Sarah Palin and Nick Begich continue to attack one another while urging voters to \u201crank the red\u201d to ensure the GOP wins in the state\u2019s ranked-choice vote. Democrat Mary Peltola won an August special election under the new system despite winning just 40% of the preliminary vote, a concern both Palin &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1890393,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1700297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700297","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1700297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1700297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1890393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1700297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1700297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1700297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}