In Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, with just a few days to go until the primary election, Republicans Lisa Murkowski and Kelly Tshibaka are looking ahead to November:
To win in the general election under Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting system, a candidate must get more than 50% of the vote. If no candidate reaches that threshold outright, the last-place finisher is eliminated, and those who ranked that candidate first would have their second-place votes added to the remaining candidates’ tallies. That process repeats itself until a candidate crosses the 50% threshold.
“Granted, it was a narrow margin, but Alaskans voted on it and now we’re living with it, right? When you want to say who was behind it, it’s the people of Alaska, when it’s an initiative process,” Murkowski said after a Project Veritas Action reporter confronted her about the recordings. “We’re stuck with it. You know why? Because of Murkowski. It’s the only way she could win,” Trump said at the rally. He repeated the accusationthis week, saying on Monday that “Murkowski got because she was so unpopular, that was the only way she was going to win.”
“I will say it benefits coalition-style candidates and she’s definitely a coalition-style candidate,” he added in the recording. As for the impact of the measure on Murkowski’s campaign, Siegert said he now thinks of the primary as “a qualifying round.”
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