Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and a leading Republican primary foe backed by former President Donald Trump will make it to the general election, according to NBC.
Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system, which was implemented by a ballot vote in 2020, includes a top-four primary barrier.
Trump and the Republican Party of Alaska have both chosen Tshibaka over Murkowski to fill the open Senate seat.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and a leading Republican primary foe backed by former President Donald Trump will make it to the general election, according to NBC.
According to NBC, Murkowski and Kelly Tshibaka, a former commissioner of the Alaska Department of Administration, will advance alongside Democrat Patricia Chesbro. It was too soon to predict the outcome of the fourth candidate in this race.
As part of the state’s ranked-choice voting system, Alaska has a top-four primary threshold. This requirement was implemented in 2020, just in time for Murkowski, who wasn’t certain to win Tuesday’s primary.
Trump and the Republican Party of Alaska have both chosen Tshibaka over Murkowski to fill the open Senate seat. While he was still president, Trump harshly insulted Murkowski, declaring in 2018 that she would “never recover” from her decision to vote against his second Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh.
After Murkowski joined six other Republican senators in voting to punish Trump for instigating the Capitol riot on January 6, Trump, the de facto leader of the Republican Party, promised to run a campaign against her.
At the time, Trump stated, “I do not know where other people will be next year, but I know where I will be—in Alaska, running against a disloyal and extremely nasty Senator.
