{"id":1750227,"date":"2022-11-24T08:03:56","date_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1750227"},"modified":"2022-11-24T08:19:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-24T13:19:00","slug":"sen-murkowski-fends-off-challenger-wins-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-murkowski-fends-off-challenger-wins-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Sen. Murkowski Fends Off Challenger, Wins Re-Election"},"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\">14<\/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%2Fsen-murkowski-fends-off-challenger-wins-re-election%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=1750227&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--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>Contests in Alaska\u2019s Senate, House, and gubernatorial races were called on Wednesday, more than two weeks after Election Day.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin lost her latest attempt at a political comeback, losing the race for Alaska\u2019s at-large district to Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK). Peltola had previously won a congressional special election race over the summer to finish out the term of the late-Rep. Don Young (R), who died in March. She is the first Native Alaskan to serve in Congress.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWE DID IT!!!\u201d Peltola said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaryPeltola\/status\/1595589374636441602?s=20&#038;t=bUBZZ8JR26ISkZUtrp3UaQ\">tweet<\/a> on Wednesday celebrating her victory. She defeated Palin by about 23,000 votes, or 54.9% to 45.1%.<\/p>\n<p>In the state\u2019s Senate race, Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski fended off her Trump-endorsed opponent Kelly Tshibaka to win reelection to her seat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The centrist Murkowski, who was first elected to the Senate 20 years ago, won the ranked-choice election with 53.7% of the vote to Tshibaka\u2019s 46.3%.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/ALASKA.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ALASKA.jpg\" alt=\"Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin lost her latest lost her race for Alaska\u2019s at-large district to Rep. Mary Peltola.\" class=\"wp-image-24774995\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/ALASKA.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/ALASKA.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/ALASKA.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/ALASKA.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin lost her latest lost her race for Alaska\u2019s at-large district to Rep. Mary Peltola. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">REUTERS<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThank you, Alaska,\u201d Murkowski <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LisaForSenate\/status\/1595585733435482112?s=20&#038;t=bUBZZ8JR26ISkZUtrp3UaQ\">said<\/a> in a tweet on Wednesday. \u201cI am honored that Alaskans \u2013 of all regions, backgrounds and party affiliations \u2013 have once again granted me their confidence to continue working with them and on their behalf in the U.S. Senate. I look forward to continuing the important work ahead of us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Finally, Republican Gov. Mike Dunleavy was declared the winner in his reelection race against Democrat Les Gara and independent Bill Walker. Dunleavy prevailed by more than 50% of first choice votes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, voters in Alaska approved a switch to a ranked-choice voting system. Under the new system, the top four finishers in the states open primary elections advance to the general election, where voters then rank those four candidates from first choice to fourth choice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1438815501.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1438815501.jpg\" alt=\"Kelly Tshibaka, a Trump-endorsed opponent, was only able to finish out with 46.3%. to Murkowski&#039;s 53.7%.\" class=\"wp-image-24774979\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1438815501.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1438815501.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1438815501.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/11\/1438815501.jpg?quality=75&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>Kelly Tshibaka, a Trump-endorsed opponent, was only able to finish out with 46.3%. to Murkowski\u2019s 53.7%.  <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ranked choice voting was used this year for the first time in the state\u2019s electoral history.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After the Nov. 8 midterm elections, Palin was the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SarahPalinUSA\/status\/1593653307549286400?s=20&#038;t=bUBZZ8JR26ISkZUtrp3UaQ\">first to sign a petition<\/a> to repeal ranked-choice voting launched by the group Alaskans for Honest Government.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contests in Alaska\u2019s Senate, House, and gubernatorial races were called on Wednesday, more than two weeks after Election Day.\u00a0 Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1750230,"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":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1750227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"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\/1750227","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=1750227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1750227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1750227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1750227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1750227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}