Alaska’s senior Senator, Princess Lisa Murkowski, originally inherited her Senate seat like a feudal title from her father, Frank Murkowski, when the old man was elected governor in 2002. But credit where credit’s due; she has managed to hold that seat ever since. In 2010, she was successfully primaried by Republican Joe Miller, and managed to win nonetheless on a write-in campaign. She has a coalition, a brew of squishy Republicans and Anchorage and Juneau Democrats who are (properly) aware that the Great Land probably won’t send a Democrat to the Senate.
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That coalition may be coming apart now.
The Democrats are done with the “using” of Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Now, they are into the “abusing” phase of the relationship.
US Sen. Ruben Gallego, an Arizona first-term Democrat, was brought in as the featured guest at a virtual “emergency town hall” hosted by the Alaska Democratic Party on Wednesday