Alaskans go to the polls Tuesday to decide, among other things, whether to send former governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin to Congress.
U.S. House candidate former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin greets the crowd during a rally held by former President Donald Trump on July 9 in Anchorage.
The winner will serve until the end of the year, finishing the term of GOP Rep. Don Young. He died in March after serving 49 years. With two conservatives splitting the vote, Peltola, a salmon advocate and former state legislator from western Alaska, is likely to gain the most first-choice ballots. But the winner of the special election won't be known until the end of August, after all the mailed ballots arrive. That's when the Alaska Division of Elections will tabulate the rankings.
Begich has called Palin a"quitter," tapping into the disappointment many Alaska Republicans felt when she resigned as governor in 2009"We picked her to do a job, and she didn't bother to finish it. Because she wanted to go out there and get rich and famous," a Begich ad says."Game No. 1 has to be that you don't come in third," said Art Hackney, a Republican consultant working for Begich.
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