{"id":1750009,"date":"2022-11-23T22:32:47","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T03:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750009"},"modified":"2022-11-23T22:32:53","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T03:32:53","slug":"lisa-murkowski-wins-re-election-in-u-s-senate-mike-dunleavy-first-alaska-governor-to-win-re-election-since-1998-projection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lisa-murkowski-wins-re-election-in-u-s-senate-mike-dunleavy-first-alaska-governor-to-win-re-election-since-1998-projection\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Murkowski Wins Re-Election In U.S. Senate, Mike Dunleavy First Alaska Governor To Win Re-Election Since 1998: Projection"},"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\">36<\/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%2Flisa-murkowski-wins-re-election-in-u-s-senate-mike-dunleavy-first-alaska-governor-to-win-re-election-since-1998-projection%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=1750009&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.dailywire.com\/topic\/lisa-murkowski\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lisa Murkowski<\/a> (R-AK) has won re-election after state officials finished a final round of vote-counting in the state\u2019s ranked choice voting system.<\/p>\n<p>Murkowski won re-election over Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka Wednesday evening in a ranked choice runoff because neither candidate reached 50% on the ballot.<\/p>\n<p>After the second-choice votes were counted, Murkowski ended up beating Tshibaka, 53.7% to 46.3%.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am honored that Alaskans \u2014 of all regions, backgrounds and party affiliations \u2014 have once again granted me their confidence to continue working with them and on their behalf in the U.S. Senate,\u201d Murkowski said in a statement after the results were announced. \u201cI look forward to continuing the important work ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy also won re-election, becoming the state\u2019s first governor since 1998 to do so.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlaskans, thank you for voting and for your continued support over the past four years,\u201d he said in a statement. \u201cFrom public safety and improving our education outcomes to growing our economy, I am honored to serve Alaskans for another four years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look forward to working with the Legislature to prioritize the policies Alaskans expect us to accomplish,\u201d he added. \u201cTogether, we will work to build an Alaska not just for the next four years but for 50 years and beyond. I will devote myself to ensuring our best days are in front of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) also won re-election against Sarah Palin, who former President Donald Trump backed along with Tshibaka, in the state\u2019s at-large House seat.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post noted that Peltola, who is considered to be a more moderate Democrat, is the first Alaska Native to win a full term in Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a two-year contract,\u201d she said. \u201cAnd I will be happy to work for Alaskans again, as long as they\u2019ll have me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/no-deadliest-catch-a-billion-snow-crabs-vanish-from-bering-sea-and-no-one-knows-why\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">No Deadliest Catch: A Billion Snow Crabs Vanish From Bering Sea And No One Knows Why<\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) has won re-election after state officials finished a final round of vote-counting in the state\u2019s ranked choice voting system. Murkowski won re-election over Republican challenger Kelly Tshibaka Wednesday evening in a ranked choice runoff because neither candidate reached 50% on the ballot. After the second-choice votes were counted, Murkowski ended up &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1750012,"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-1750009","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\/1750009","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\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1750009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}