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GOP disarray: Alaska Republican Party votes to censure Mitch McConnell for supporting Lisa Murkowski [1]

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Date: 2022-10-25

Donald Trump and Mitch McConnell are waging a proxy war in the Alaska Senate race.

Trump is backing Kelly Tshibaka, who of course is an election denier. McConnell has thrown his support and money behind incumbent Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who voted to convict Trump in his Senate impeachment trial following the Jan. 6 insurrection.

And the credit for this disarray in the GOP goes to Alaskans who instituted a system of ranked-choice voting that has enabled both Murkowski and Tshibaka to appear on the November ballot. In 2010, Murkowski successfully ran as a write-in candidate after losing the Republican primary to Tea Party extremist Joe Miller.

The McConnell-aligned Senate Leadership Fund super PAC has spent more than $5 million in ads attacking Tshibaka, according to The Washington Post.

Here’s one of the super PAC ads which nails Tshibaka for illegally obtaining a fishing license. Alaskans do have a thing about fish in election campaigns.

That certainly didn’t sit well with the Alaska GOP, where extremist MAGA Republicans are becoming more dominant among the party rank-and-file.

So on Monday, the Alaska Republican Party voted to censure McConnell for spreading “divisive and misleading statements” about their endorsed candidate, Tshibaka.

The Hill, citing local news reports, said the party’s state central committee approved the censure resolution by a vote of 49-8. Last year, the Alaska GOP censured Murkowski for her vote to convict Trump in the Senate trial.

The Washington Post called the censure resolution “a gesture with no practical consequence but one that is intended to send a strong signal to conservative voters in the state to vote for” Tshibaka over Murkowski. The incumbent Republican also voted to save the Affordable Care Act and opposed Brett Kavanaugh’s Supreme Court nomination.

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Tshibaka, a former Alaska Department of Administration commissioner, accused McConnell of lying about her to generate support among Republicans for Murkowski.

The Post quoted Tshibaka as saying:

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