The US Senate race in Alaska is headed to the ranked choice runoff process, after no candidate on the ballot, including top-two vote getters Sen. Lisa Murkowski and challenger Kelly Tshibaka, exceeded the 50% threshold to win outright, NBC News projects.
is headed to the ranked choice runoff process, as no candidate on the ballot, including top-two voter getters GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski and GOP challenger Kelly Tshibaka, will reach 50%, according to NBC News.ranked-choice voting systemIn ranked-choice elections, voters identify a first choice on their ballots, then rank the other candidates in order of preference. If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes on the first count, the election moves to an instant runoff.
candidates who don’t play to either party’s fringe and work instead to appeal to the broadest group of people — which some political watchers said would end up benefiting Murkowski because she holds wider appeal to Democrats and independents, who could then pick her as their second choice.in his second impeachment trial, believing he incited the deadly insurrection at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.
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