{"id":1709483,"date":"2022-10-24T17:33:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T21:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1709483"},"modified":"2022-10-24T17:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T21:33:58","slug":"alaska-gop-censures-mitch-mcconnell-for-meddling-in-race-between-two-republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/alaska-gop-censures-mitch-mcconnell-for-meddling-in-race-between-two-republicans\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska GOP Censures Mitch McConnell For Meddling In Race Between Two Republicans"},"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%2Falaska-gop-censures-mitch-mcconnell-for-meddling-in-race-between-two-republicans%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=1709483&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>The Alaska GOP formally censured Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell over the weekend for the Kentucky lawmaker\u2019s interference in the Arctic Senate race between two Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>On Monday, the state Republican central committee announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/mustreadalaska.com\/breaking-alaska-republican-party-votes-to-censure-sen-mitch-mcconnell-for-attacking-republican-kelly-tshibaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">results<\/a> of an overwhelming vote to admonish the national party leader over attack ads against Kelly Tshibaka, the candidate endorsed by the Alaska GOP who is challenging incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. The final vote came to 49-8 in favor of a resolution censuring McConnell and the minority leader\u2019s Senate Leadership Fund (SLF) which has pumped more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2022\/10\/24\/murkowski-peltola-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">$5 million<\/a> into the race to defend a key McConnell ally in the upper chamber. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cNo one from Alaska wants big shots from the Lower 48 meddling in our elections, and they certainly don\u2019t want D.C. Republicans lying about the candidate who\u2019s been endorsed by the Alaska GOP,\u201d Mary Ann Pruitt, an advisor to Tshibaka, told The Federalist. \u201cAlaska Republicans are telling Mitch McConnell to stay out of it. But this goes to show you who Lisa Murkowski is aligned with. She\u2019s wearing the jersey of the Washington establishment of Biden, Pelosi, and McConnell, and she\u2019s not on Alaska\u2019s team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Murkowski <a href=\"https:\/\/mustreadalaska.com\/murkowski-says-shes-voting-for-peltola-first\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">endorsed<\/a> the state\u2019s Democrat Congresswoman Mary Peltola in the state\u2019s House race over former Republican governor and 2008 vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and Nick Begich, the other Republican in the contest. Two months ago, Peltola pulled off a <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/09\/01\/sarah-palin-should-blame-lisa-murkowski-for-her-special-election-loss\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">surprise upset<\/a> when she captured the seat in a special election, becoming the first Democrat to represent the state in the lower chamber since 1973. Alaska\u2019s new ranked-choice voting system, put in place by Murkowski operatives to avoid a competitive primary, <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\">opened the door<\/a> for a Democrat to win the at-large House race.<\/p>\n[READ: <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\">Alaska\u2019s Ranked-Choice Voting Scheme Was A Plot To Save Murkowski, But It Also Doomed Palin<\/a>]\n<p>The resolution from the Alaska Republican Party to censure McConnell comes after a cascade of similar resolutions from GOP groups in the state condemned the minority leader\u2019s interference. Last week, the Republican Women of Kenai <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/10\/20\/unprofessional-unethical-7th-alaska-gop-group-slams-mcconnell-for-fighting-party-endorsed-senate-candidate-tshibaka\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> on the state party directly to admonish the octogenarian lawmaker for working to defeat the chosen candidate of Alaska Republicans. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cBe it resolved that the Republican women of the Kenai,\u201d read the group\u2019s resolution, \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>While propping up Murkowski with millions as she endorses Democrats, McConnell has <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\">stripped<\/a> scarce resources from Republicans in tight races against Democrat incumbents. In Arizona, McConnell pulled $18 million from Republican venture capitalist Blake Masters, despite the chances of picking up a Republican seat if Masters defeats Democrat Sen. Mark Kelly. <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 of polls (which are often manipulated to fit Democratic narratives), Masters remains within striking distance of the former astronaut at less than 3 points behind. That\u2019s less than the nearly 5-point lead Kelly enjoyed just two weeks ago as the race narrows<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alaska Republican Party voted 49-8 to censure Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell for his meddling in the state&#8217;s Senate contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":494,"featured_media":1709486,"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-1709483","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\/1709483","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=1709483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709483\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1709486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}