BREAKING: In the Alaska Senate race, ABC News reports Republican Lisa Murkowski is projected to win.
November 23, 2022, 8:14 PMSen. Lisa Murkowski leaves a meeting with the Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol, Nov. 16, 2022 in Washington, DC.ABC News reports that Alaska's incumbent senator, Republican Lisa Murkowski, is projected to win reelection against another Republican opponent, Trump-backed Kelly Tshibaka, and that Democrat Rep.
Even with the Murkowski projection, power in the Democrat-controlled U.S. Senate remains at 50-49 since the last remaining Senate candidates in Alaska were both Republicans. The final outcome of the seat count in the Senate will be determined by a Dec. 6 runoff election in Georgia between incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock and GOP challenger Herschel Walker.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski leaves a meeting with the Senate Republicans at the U.S. Capitol, Nov. 16, 2022 in Washington, DC., approved by Alaskans in 2020, contests where neither candidate reached the majority mark eliminated the individual who finished with the lowest number of votes. If a voter had chosen that last-place candidate, their vote then goes to their second choice. If a voter's first choice was not eliminated, their vote stays with that candidate. The votes are then counted again.
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