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Mitch McConnell calls Donald Trump’s bluff in Alaska | #alaska | #politics

CNN — Mitch McConnell isn’t backing down in his standoff with Donald Trump. On Monday, the Senate Leadership Fund, the super PAC aligned with McConnell, announced that it had booked more than $7 miIlion worth of ad time in Alaska as GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski tries to fend off a challenge from Kelly Tshibaka, who […]

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Democratic Senate nominees hold cash edge in fall home stretch but face GOP advertising onslaught | #alaska | #politics

CNN — Seven Democrats in the 10 most competitive Senate races started this month and the home stretch to Election Day with bigger cash stockpiles than their Republican rivals, newly filed campaign finance reports show. But even with that financial edge, Democrats face a withering advertising assault in the final weeks of the campaign from […]

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Ranked-choice voting, nonpartisan primaries and other efforts to depolarize the US | #alaska | #politics

A version of this story appeared in CNN’s What Matters newsletter. To get it in your inbox, sign up for free here. CNN — American democracy is changing right now in important and optimistic ways in red and blue states. Anger at the lack of choices in the two-party system fueled the ranked-choice voting experiment […]

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Live updates: Wyoming and Alaska election results 2022 | #alaska | #politics

A campaign sign for Rep. Liz Cheney is posted in Laramie, Wyoming, on Aug. 14. (Alex Wong/Getty Images) Former President Donald Trump’s campaign to purge the Republican Party of his opponents could reach its most dramatic moment of the 2022 midterm election cycle on Tuesday in Wyoming. Rep. Liz Cheney, the vice chair of the House […]

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Six takeaways from primaries in Wyoming and Alaska | #alaska | #politics

Jackson, Wyoming CNN — Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who since the insurrection at the Capitol has become the Republican Party’s most forceful critic of former President Donald Trump, was ousted from her House seat in by Trump-backed Harriet Hageman, CNN projected Tuesday. In Alaska, voters were casting ballots in another race the former President is […]

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Interior Department cancels offshore oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico | #alaska | #politics

CNN — The Biden administration announced Wednesday it would cancel three upcoming offshore oil and gas leases – two in the Gulf of Mexico and one in Alaska – over a lack of interest and delays. The cancellation of the previously planned Cook Inlet sale in Alaska, as well as the lease sales in the […]