Liz Ruskin
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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
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You know, she's like the poster child for why conservatives do not like ranked choice voting in Alaska.
So that repeal measure will be on the ballot.
And I think that, among other things, it gives Republicans and conservatives a real reason to go to the polls in an election when President Trump won't be on the ballot.
Oh, it just barely failed.
And the repeal campaign was beset with problems of their own making for the most part.
And a well-funded repeal campaign certainly has a good chance of passing.
I think that on the right, low propensity voters will be especially motivated to come out to repeal rank choice voting.
They don't like it.
It's newfangled.
They're suspicious of the way the votes are counted.
They don't like it.
And I think it would give a lot of, you know, more cynical, skeptical people, especially on the right, a reason to get out to the polls and vote.
Senator Tom Tillis of North Carolina told reporters at the Capitol that the agency's performance in Minneapolis disqualifies Noem from leading the department, calling her actions amateurish and terrible.
Tillis and Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska say Noem lost credibility and inflamed tensions by calling Alex Preddy, the nurse her agents killed, a domestic terrorist.
Both senators say she should step down.
President Trump, though, says Noem is doing, quote, a very good job.
For NPR News, I'm Liz Ruskin at the Capitol.
With Peltola, National Democrats believe Alaska becomes one of their best hopes to flip a seat.
In a campaign launch video, Peltola stressed her salmon-centered family life on Alaska's Kuskokwim River and repeated her previous campaign slogan, Fish, Family, Freedom.
Sullivan is campaigning with President Trump's endorsement.
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