Trump wants Lisa Murkowski gone. A voting reform might save her.
Posted on AllSides January 18th, 2022
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J. Scott Applewhite/AP
The Alaska senator may escape the GOP base’s ire over her impeachment vote, thanks to a ballot measure ending partisan primaries. Advocates call it a model for alleviating polarization.
Donald Trump’s victory in Alaska in 2020 extended a half-century run for Republican presidential nominees in that state. But at the same time, Alaska’s voters also approved a ballot measure that is now complicating the defeated president’s revenge campaign against GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who voted to impeach Mr. Trump over the Jan. 6 invasion of the U.S. Capitol.
The measure,...
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