Name confusion and the Last Frontier’s ranked-choice system may spell trouble for Republicans The post Alaska: The Sleeper Race That Could Decide Control of the Senate appeared first on The American Conservative .
Politics Alaska: The Sleeper Race That Could Decide Senate Control Name confusion and the Last Frontier’s ranked-choice system may spell trouble for Republicans. (Nathan Posner/Anadolu via Getty Images) As the prognosticators and planners inside the Acela corridor were rolling out of bed last Wednesday morning, the votes in Alaska’s open Senate primary were still being counted. The former Democratic congresswoman Mary Peltola had opened a commanding lead over the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, notching 48.1 percent to Sullivan’s 42.7 percent (a margin that, with most of the votes now counted, has…Open
Former Anchorage Mayor Dan A. Sullivan has endorsed incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan over a third Dan Sullivan in Alaska's Senate race, a contest now tangled in court rulings, a federal investigation, and unresolved vote counts. The former mayor posted on social media ahead of the primary, branding himself "the OG Dan Sullivan" and urging […] The post Three Dan Sullivans and one Alaska Senate seat: how a same-name challenger turned a primary into a legal and federal mess appeared first on American Almanac .
Former Anchorage Mayor Dan A. Sullivan has endorsed incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan over a third Dan Sullivan in Alaska's Senate race, a contest now tangled in court rulings, a federal investigation, and unresolved vote counts. The former mayor posted on social media ahead of the primary, branding himself "the OG Dan Sullivan" and urging Alaskans to back the sitting senator. His endorsement landed in a race that already featured two candidates with nearly identical names on the same ballot, a situation Republicans say was engineered by Democrats to siphon votes from the incumbent. The third man in the mix, Dan J. Sullivan, is a retired teacher from Petersburg, Alaska. He filed to run as a Republican, and his presence on the ballot set off…Open
As Alaskans vote in a critical U.S. Senate race, The Executive Editor of the Anchorage Press, Nathaniel Herz tells MS NOW’s Ali Velshi that the state’s election system has had positive effects: “You've seen Republicans learn some lessons and campaign in a more civil way against each other.”
President Trump accused Democrats of running a same-name candidate against Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan to confuse primary voters, a charge bolstered by ties between the challenger's campaign and Democratic operatives linked to Chuck Schumer's political network. With Alaska's primary election days away, Trump took to social media Friday to endorse the two-term Republican incumbent and […] The post Trump calls out Democrats over same-name candidate challenging Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan appeared first on American Almanac .
President Trump accused Democrats of running a same-name candidate against Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan to confuse primary voters, a charge bolstered by ties between the challenger's campaign and Democratic operatives linked to Chuck Schumer's political network. With Alaska's primary election days away, Trump took to social media Friday to endorse the two-term Republican incumbent and warn voters about what he called a deliberate scheme to split the GOP vote. A retired fifth-grade teacher named Dan J. Sullivan filed to run in the same race, listing himself as a Republican, and the Alaska Supreme Court ruled he has every right to stay on the ballot. The result: two candidates named Dan Sullivan on the same primary ballot, in a state where the…Open
One of the bill’s most debated provisions would have authorized the state auditor to conduct post-election performance audits. Blackwell said the audits would occur after elections are complete and would not affect election outcomes.
House Democratic leadership's preferred candidate in Maine's 2nd district , state Sen. Joe Baldacci, lost his primary to progressive rival Matt Dunlap, state election officials announced early Friday morning. Why it matters: This is the second time this month that a candidate backed by the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee has fallen short in their primary. - California State Assembly member Jasmeet Bains, the DCCC-backed candidate in California's 22nd district, failed to make it to the general election, losing out to progressive Randy Villegas. - The DCCC has sparked considerable tension among House Democrats by intervening in these races, with some lawmakers threatening to withhold their dues to the House Democratic…
Mr. Charles, a conservative Republican, had led the field ahead of a ranked-choice runoff. But Ms. Pingree, a former Maine House speaker, had been in a tight race with other Democrats.
In Tuesday's Democratic primary, Nirav Shah, a physician and former U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official, was ahead with 26.7% as of Tuesday night when the Associated Press determined that the race would go to a run-off.
