Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was defeated by Democrat Mary Peltola in a special election for the state’s lone House seat Wednesday night.
This made Peltola the first Native Alaskan to be elected to Congress.
Palin, who grew to national fame as the former Republican running mate of the late presidential candidate John McCain, was hoping to make a political comeback since her stint as governor ended in 2009.
Despite an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, she narrowly lost to Peltola, a former state lawmaker, in the state’s first ranked-choice election spurred by the death of Rep. Don Young.
Peltola took 51.5% of the vote compared to Palin’s 48.5% after multiple rounds of ranked-choice votes were tallied.
Republican Nick Begich came in third place and was eliminated. A large portion of his votes went to Palin who was marked as the second choice by several Begich supporters. Those votes, however, were not enough to overcome Peltola’s lead.
Peltola is likely to be sworn into office the week of Sept. 12, when the House reconvenes after the summer recess.
Peltola will serve the remainder of Young’s term, which ends in January before she will need to fight for the seat again.
Peltola will likely run against Palin and Begich a second time in November for a full term. All three have already begun campaigning.
Alaska is showing the rest of the country that they just don’t get it, put another Democrat scum bag in office and fuck the country, the only good news is most Alaskans are morons anyway.
Sadly there are a lot of Democrat run states that are full of morons.
the problem was the Republican vote was split between the two, which made it easy for the Dem to get in.