Liz Ruskin

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167 appearances 9 recordings 2 series first heard Oct 2025 last heard 30 Jun

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The NPR Politics Podcast · Democrats’ long-shot bid to flip Alaska’s Senate seat · 24 Mar 2026 podcast

I see on social media people saying, primary her, primary her.

And I think, ah, you are not from Alaska because you would know that you can't really primary someone like that.

Senator Murkowski picks up in the primary.

She gets the votes of people from all over the political spectrum.

And then in the general, in the last one, there was a relatively weak Democratic candidate.

She had no campaign votes.

to speak of.

A lot of Democrats voted Murkowski number one.

Some of them voted for this relatively unknown Democrat as number one and Murkowski as number two, but that doesn't matter.

A Democratic candidate does not act as a spoiler in that situation.

Sometimes there's like a dozen names, or if there's only a few, it's just not likely that the person named Murkowski is not going to finish somewhere in the top four.

She really can't lose a primary in most races.

People who are running serious campaigns are going to make it into the top four.

There aren't that many people who run usually.

Now, our governor's race is an exception.

And the original race that Mary Peltola won, there were, I believe, 49 candidates, and she won that primary race.

Yeah.

Alaskans will have a second chance in November to repeal ranked choice voting.

This has tremendous appeal to conservatives and Republicans who really do not like ranked choice voting.

And their inability to get rid of Lisa Murkowski is a prime reason

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