{"id":1704595,"date":"2022-10-20T16:47:57","date_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:47:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1704595"},"modified":"2022-10-20T16:48:23","modified_gmt":"2022-10-20T20:48:23","slug":"unprofessional-unethical-7th-alaska-gop-group-slams-mcconnell-for-fighting-party-endorsed-senate-candidate-tshibaka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/unprofessional-unethical-7th-alaska-gop-group-slams-mcconnell-for-fighting-party-endorsed-senate-candidate-tshibaka\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Unprofessional, Unethical\u2019: 7th Alaska GOP Group Slams McConnell For Fighting Party-Endorsed Senate Candidate Tshibaka"},"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\">28<\/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%2Funprofessional-unethical-7th-alaska-gop-group-slams-mcconnell-for-fighting-party-endorsed-senate-candidate-tshibaka%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=1704595&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>Seven affiliates of the Alaska Republican Party have now formally slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his interference in the Alaskan Senate contest against the party-endorsed candidate. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, the Republican Women of Kenai became the latest Alaska Republican group to lambast the Kentucky senator and demanded his own state party censure him. In March last year, the Alaska Republican Party <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2021\/03\/16\/alaska-gop-censures-sen-lisa-murkowski-pledges-support-for-primary-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">censured<\/a> Sen. Lisa Murkowski and pledged to support a primary opponent. The party <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alaskasnewssource.com\/2021\/07\/11\/alaska-gop-leaders-endorse-challenger-us-sen-murkowski\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed<\/a> Kelly Tshibaka four months later. Because Alaska will use <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/09\/alaskas-ranked-choice-voting-scheme-was-a-plot-to-save-murkowski-but-it-also-doomed-palin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ranked-choice voting<\/a> in its general election in lieu of traditional party primaries, the two Republicans are still embattled in competition.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/09\/alaskas-ranked-choice-voting-scheme-was-a-plot-to-save-murkowski-but-it-also-doomed-palin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">[RELATED: Alaska\u2019s Ranked-Choice Voting Was A Scheme To Save Murkowski]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe it resolved that the Republican women of the Kenai,\u201d Wednesday\u2019s resolution read, \u201cthat we request the Alaska Republican Party leadership demand Senator Mitch McConnell and the Senate Leadership Fund respect the Alaska Republican Party\u2019s endorsement of Kelly Tshibaka.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The group called on the state GOP to order a halt to attack ads from McConnell\u2019s super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), targeting Tshibaka. The SLF charged with reclaiming the Republican majority has dropped more than $5 million in the race to defend Murkowski in the race between two Republicans, <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. The few <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\">polls<\/a> conducted in the contest show the race neck-in-neck between Tshibaka and the incumbent senator under the state\u2019s ranked-choice voting scheme.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, former President Donald Trump, who endorsed Tshibaka, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/11\/trump-blasts-mcconnell-for-prioritizing-establishment-allies-over-a-senate-majority\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">railed<\/a> against McConnell for spending millions on Murkowski in Alaska while pulling out of Arizona, where the SLF <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\">canceled<\/a> $18 million in planned support for Republican venture capitalist Blake Masters.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cKelly Tshibaka is doing very well in Alaska, probably leading horrendously bad Senator Lisa Murkowski, a Republican (barely!),\u201d Trump wrote in a statement earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday\u2019s resolution from the Republican Women of Kenai marks the seventh affiliate of the Alaska Republican Party to reprimand the Kentucky senator. Six more groups passed similar resolutions in recent weeks, <a href=\"https:\/\/mustreadalaska.com\/now-six-two-more-republican-committees-in-alaska-blast-sen-mitch-mcconnell-for-bullying-kelly-tshibaka\/\">according<\/a> to Must Read Alaska columnist Suzanne Downing, including four organized districts of the Alaska GOP, the Mat-Su Republican Women\u2019s Club, and the Anchorage Republican Women\u2019s Club. <\/p>\n<p>Both Masters and Tshibaka have pledged to oppose McConnell for another term in Senate leadership.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis just shows that Alaskans don\u2019t like to be told what to do by Lower 48 outsiders, especially those who are spending millions of dollars in false attack ads to meddle in our elections,\u201d Mary Ann Pruitt, an Alaskan consultant advising Tshibaka, told The Federalist. \u201cThe Alaska Republican Party has endorsed Kelly Tshibaka over Lisa Murkowski, so Alaska Republicans are telling Mitch McConnell to butt out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile in Arizona, outside conservative groups such as <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/04\/exclusive-heritage-action-super-pac-drops-seven-figure-ad-buy-in-arizona-senate-race-as-mcconnell-abandons-blake-masters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Heritage Action for America<\/a> are stepping in to get Masters across the finish line for a key pickup against vulnerable incumbent Sen. Mark Kelly. Even though polls are often manipulated to fit media narratives, Masters remains within three points of the Democrat lawmaker, <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 RealClearPolitics\u2019 latest aggregate.<\/p>\n<p> Tristan Justice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven affiliates of the Alaska Republican Party have now formally slammed Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his interference in the Alaskan Senate contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1704598,"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":[546],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1704595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist"],"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\/1704595","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=1704595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1704595\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1704598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1704595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1704595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1704595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}