Murkowski as a liberal and to rally the state’s conservative base against her. Tshibaka, a Trump-endorsed former commissioner in the Alaska Department of Administration, has worked to paint Ms. At an Arctic policy event in the Dena’ina Civic and Convention Center, she appeared with Senator Joe Manchin III, the centrist West Virginia Democrat, who was wearing an “I’m on Team Lisa” button and proclaimed, “I’m endorsing her 1,000 percent.”Īll of it is fodder for her staunchest opponents. Murkowski has been reminding voters of her flair for pursuing bipartisan initiatives, such as the $1 trillion infrastructure law that is expected to send more than $1 billion to her state, and promoting her strong relationships with Democrats. Murkowski’s opposition to sweeping climate change policies, as well as her support in 2017 for the $1.5 trillion Republican tax law that also allowed drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Murkowski in the race, it is not clear whether she can attract enough support from liberal voters to offset the conservatives who have been alienated by her stance against Mr. “But there is a different sense of obligation that I am feeling now as a lawmaker.”Īnd while there is now no Democrat going up against Ms. Murkowski said, referring to the nearby ski resort. It’s time to, as I always say, it’s time to get my season ski pass at Alyeska and really get my money’s worth,” Ms. “The easy thing would have been to just say, 20 years is good and honorable in the United States Senate. So she has embarked on a re-election campaign that is also an effort to salvage a version of the Republican Party that hardly exists anymore in Congress, as seasoned pragmatists retire or are chased out by right-wing hard-liners competing to take their places. Murkowski also has powerful help from the Republican establishment Senator Mitch McConnell’s leadership political action committee announced last week that it had reserved $7.4 million worth of advertising in Alaska to support her candidacy. 16 primary open to candidates of any political stripe, followed by a general election in which voters will rank the top four to emerge from the primary to determine a winner.ĭespite her penchant for defecting from the party line, Ms. Murkowski does not have to worry about a head-to-head contest with a more conservative opponent.
And under a new set of election rules engineered by her allies, Ms.
Though it leans conservative, Alaska is a fiercely individualistic state where the majority of voters do not align with either major political party. Murkowski, 64, it amounts to a high-stakes bet that voters in the famously independent state of Alaska will reward a Republican centrist at a time of extreme partisanship. moderate willing to defy party orthodoxy.įor Ms.
Murkowski is attempting something almost unheard-of: running for re-election as a proud G.O.P. In a year when control of Congress is at stake and the Republican Party is dominated by the reactionary right, Ms. “And if they say that that’s the way that Alaska has gone - kind of the same direction that so many other parts of the country have gone - I have to accept that,” Ms. “It may be that Alaskans say, ‘Nope, we want to go with an absolute, down-the-line, always, always, 100-percent, never-question, rubber-stamp Republican.’ to support confirming Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, President Biden’s Supreme Court nominee and the first Black woman to serve there. I may not be re-elected,” she said in an interview after an event here, just days after breaking with the G.O.P.
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ANCHORAGE - Sitting in a darkened exhibition room at the Anchorage Museum on a recent Tuesday morning, Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska conceded that she might lose her campaign for a fourth full term in Congress, where she is one of a tiny and dwindling group of Republicans still willing to buck her party.
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