Updated: In a primary race largely seen as a referendum on former President Trump, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski was leading Trump-backed challenger Kelly Tshibaka in early voting results Wednesday
Sen. Lisa Murkowski speaks with reporters at her Anchorage campaign headquarters on Aug. 16, 2022.
Murkowski’s campaign spokesperson Shea Siegert declined to comment on the early results. At a party held at her Anchorage campaign headquarters, Tshibaka said she was “encouraged” by the results. Trump made good on a promise to campaign against Murkowski when he traveled to Alaska last month for a rally in Anchorage, where he excoriated her as “worse than a RINO,” or a so-called Republican in name only. Tshibaka shared the stage with Trump at that event and held a tele-rally with the former president on Thursday, just days before the election.
Murkowski has said she sees her 2010 write-in campaign victory as a blueprint for her Senate run this year. In 2010, she relied on a coalition of voters to win in the general election after she lost the Republican primary to Tea Party nominee Joe Miller. Murkowski has never received more than 50% of the vote in a general election.
Alaska U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, center, is shown at the grand opening of her reelection campaign office in Juneau. To a crowd at the Anchorage senior center last week, Chesbro pointed out that Murkowski supported several of the Supreme Court justices who made the decision that removed federal protections for abortion access. “I think we need to be afraid of what is next,” she said.
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