Alaska Republican Party leaders voted to censure Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, the country’s top elected Republican, after his leadership political action committee spent millions attacking Republican U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., talks to reporters at the Capitol in Washington, Sept. 28, 2022.
The resolution censuring McConnell, which has no binding power, calls the attack ads “divisive and misleading” and laments the “inappropriate use of millions of dollars” to oppose Tshibaka, who is endorsed by the Alaska GOP. The resolution goes on to request that the Senate Leadership Fund “immediately stop the attack ads against Kelly Tshibaka and discontinue the support of all other opposing candidates.
The vote to censure McConnell came with two weeks to go until the November election. The Alaska GOP leaders voted to censure Murkowski in March 2021 and asked her not to run as a Republican. “I have been disturbed and I have been asking for the party to make a statement,” said Cynthia Henry, one of three Alaska Republican Party leaders who are also voting members of the Republican National Committee.
“But I do think it is good for Alaskans to see that the party is making a statement about this because those ads are pretty egregious,” said Henry.
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