McConnell's misplaced Alaska gambit

 Federalist:

‘Unprofessional, Unethical’: 7th Alaska GOP Group Slams McConnell For Fighting Party-Endorsed Senate Candidate Tshibaka

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On Wednesday, the Republican Women of Kenai became the latest Alaska Republican group to lambast the Kentucky senator and demanded his own state party censure him. In March last year, the Alaska Republican Party censured Sen. Lisa Murkowski and pledged to support a primary opponent. The party endorsed Kelly Tshibaka four months later. Because Alaska will use ranked-choice voting in its general election in lieu of traditional party primaries, the two Republicans are still embattled in competition.
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The group called on the state GOP to order a halt to attack ads from McConnell’s super PAC, the Senate Leadership Fund (SLF), targeting Tshibaka. The SLF charged with reclaiming the Republican majority has dropped more than $5 million in the race to defend Murkowski in the race between two Republicans, according to the Anchorage Daily News. The few polls conducted in the contest show the race neck-in-neck between Tshibaka and the incumbent senator under the state’s ranked-choice voting scheme.

Last week, former President Donald Trump, who endorsed Tshibaka, railed against McConnell for spending millions on Murkowski in Alaska while pulling out of Arizona, where the SLF canceled $18 million in planned support for Republican venture capitalist Blake Masters.
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First off, ranked choice elections are idiotic and should be banned.  Secondly, Murkowski is not that great a Republican and the country would be better off with Tshibaka. He also should not be pulling money out of the Arizona race where Masters would be a clearly better candidate than the current senator.

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