Sarah Palin attempts political comeback in Alaska House race

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Sarah Palin attempts political comeback in Alaska House race
by Kate Scanlon, Congressional Reporter
 | August 16, 2022 06:30 AM


Sarah Palin will attempt a political comeback Tuesday in Alaska’s at-large U.S. House race more than a decade after she left the state’s governor’s mansion. Despite the support of former President Donald Trump and high name recognition in Alaska, a win for Palin is far from guaranteed.

Palin ran unsuccessfully for vice president as the late Sen. John McCain's running mate in 2008 and resigned as governor the following year before finishing her single term.

After the death of Alaska’s longtime GOP Rep. Don Young earlier this year, Palin entered the race for Alaska’s only House seat with Trump’s backing in a so-called jungle primary that attracted dozens of candidates. Young held the seat for nearly five decades, most of Alaska’s entire history as a state.

The race isn’t just a test case for Palin but also for Alaska’s new ranked-choice voting system, which allows four candidates to advance from a primary election.

The special election and its primary were the first elections under the new system, in which voters rank candidates in their order of preference rather than simply choose one candidate. The last-place candidates are eliminated, with their voters’ subsequent choices then going to their next choice's tally. The process goes on for as many rounds as it takes until one candidate reaches a 50%-plus-one-vote threshold and is declared the winner.

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Sarah Palin advances to general election for Alaska House seat

By Associated Press
August 17, 2022

JUNEAU, Alaska — Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski and fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka have advanced from Tuesday’s primary, while Republican Sarah Palin, seeking a political comeback, was among the candidates advancing to the November general election in the race for Alaska’s only House seat.

Under a voter-approved elections process being used for the first time in Alaska elections this year, party primaries have been replaced with open primaries in which the top four vote-getters in each race advance to the general election,. In the general election ranked voting will be used.

Murkowski and Tshibaka, who was backed by former President Donald Trump, earned two of the slots in the Senate race with results still being tabulated. The other two slots have not yet been decided.

In the House primary, Palin, Republican Nick Begich and Democrat Mary Peltola have advanced to the November election. The last slot also had not yet been determined. The winner of the November race will be elected to a two-year term.

Peltola, Begich and Palin were also vying in a special election to serve the remaining term of the late-U.S. Rep. Don Young, which ends early next year. Young died in March.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/08/17/sarah-palin-advances-to-general-election-for-alaska-house-seat/