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Alaska

Jessica Watkins: Oath Keeper apologizes for going into the Capitol on January 6 | #alaska | #politics

CNN — In a raw and emotional testimony on Wednesday, Jessica Watkins, a member of the Oath Keepers on trial for seditious conspiracy, recounted being dragged into the conspiratorial underbelly of the internet and how she believed she was acting like an American patriot on January 6, 2021. Watkins made a surprise appearance on the […]

Alaska

What to know about control of Congress and outstanding votes in other races | #alaska | #politics

CNN — The battle for control of the House is now the biggest unanswered question of this year’s midterm elections after Democrats kept their narrow Senate majority. Victories in Arizona and Nevada, according to CNN projections, mean the party will enter 2023 with at least 50 Senate seats – and could add one more if […]

Alaska

Midterm elections 2022: How to tell if Republicans are heading for a landslide in the House | #alaska | #politics

CNN — The conditions are ripe for Republicans to win the US House of Representatives next month. So while Senate control is still up for grabs, the discussion on the House side has shifted to just how large a possible new GOP majority could be. Republicans only need a net gain of five seats to […]

Alaska

Liz Cheney’s doomsday prediction on a third Trump presidential bid | #alaska | #politics

CNN — Rep. Liz Cheney thinks that if the GOP nominates Donald Trump for president again in 2024, it will be the end of the Republican Party. Or at least the end of the Republican Party as we currently think of it. “I think that the party has either got to come back from where […]

Alaska

The mysterious nine-second call from the White House to a January 6 rioter: CNN reveals the rioter’s identity for the first time | #alaska | #politics

Washington CNN — At 4:34 pm on January 6, 2021, a cell phone registered to a Capitol rioter who had stormed the building, received a phone call from a White House landline, according to records obtained by CNN. The call lasted for only nine seconds. Who placed the call and why remains a mystery, but […]

Alabama

More than half of Republican Senate nominees have rejected, cast doubt upon or tried to overturn the 2020 election results | #elections | #alabama

Washington CNN — More than half of the Republican nominees for the 35 US Senate seats being contested in the 2022 midterms have challenged the legitimacy of the 2020 election – rejecting, raising doubts about or taking steps to overturn President Joe Biden’s victory. A CNN analysis found that at least 19 of this year’s […]

Alaska

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 […]

Alaska

What’s next for Twitter now that Elon Musk wants out? | Politics | #alaska | #politics

After announcing he wants out of his deal to buy Twitter, Elon Musk spent the weekend in Idaho at the Sun Valley Conference. He spoke on stage, essentially off the record, but a source in the room told CNN’s chief media correspondent Brian Stelter that Musk tripled down on his decision to try to back […]