The party’s annual convention featured speeches by Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom and businessman Nick Begich, who are running to unseat Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola.
Republican candidates for Alaska's U.S. House seat, Nick Begich III, left, and Lt. Governor Nancy Dahlstrom, at the Alaska Republican Party convention on Friday, April 19, 2024 at the Captain Cook hotel in downtown Anchorage.
Nick Begich III speaks with another attendee at the Alaska Republican Party convention on Friday, April 19, 2024 at the Captain Cook hotel in downtown Anchorage. “Rank the red” is an Alaska Republican Party strategy first used — unsuccessfully — in the 2022 House races. An August 2022 special election to replace former Rep. Don Young, who died earlier that year, featured a three-way race between Peltola, Begich, and former Gov. Sarah Palin. Peltola came away with the victory after Palin and Begich supporters did not rank the other Republican candidate in the race in sufficient numbers. Palin and Begich spent much of the campaign attacking each other.
“The person to flip this seat is Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom,” Johnson said. That assertion has been backed with some national GOP funding flowing to Dahlstrom’s campaign, though both Republicans areOutgoing Alaska Republican Party chairwoman Ann Brown speaks at the party convention on Friday, April 19, 2024 at the Captain Cook hotel in downtown Anchorage.
“Though no legislation is perfect, I have an obligation to protect Alaskans and secure our borders,” Peltola said, adding that she will “press” her colleagues in the House to take up a bipartisan border security bill that the Senateto take up. Neither Dahlstrom nor Begich said they would support the legislation during their remarks on Friday and Saturday.” policy, adding resources for border patrol, and “permanent physical barriers” at the border. Dahlstrom also said the U.S.
Some members of the party sought to have Dahlstrom and Begich commit that if either of them came in third place in the primary, they would drop out to increase the odds that the more popular Republican can win with limited intra-party competition. Many Republicans don’t view it that way. Party leaders said they hoped the system would be repealed. A ballot group has sought to put the question of returning to Alaska’s closed partisan primaries and pick-one general elections on the November ballot.
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