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(LifeSiteNews) – The Republicans of Alaska’s 9th Congressional District condemned the Republican U.S. Senate leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, for spending on behalf of Alaska’s liberal incumbent Republican, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, instead of supporting her more conservative challenger, Kelly Tshibaka, who has the backing of the Alaska GOP.
Murkowski, a pro-abortion Republican known for siding with Democrats on issues including federal funding for abortion, far-left activist nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court, and pro-LGBT federal spending, faces a three-way challenge in Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system against Tshibaka, a self-described “pro-life, pro 2nd Amendment, and pro America first” conservative endorsed by the Alaska Republican Party and former President Donald Trump, and Democrat Patricia Chesbro.
But despite Murkowski’s repeated opposition to GOP priorities as well as a core moral plank of the official Republican platform, McConnell has long declared himself “proud she’s in the Republican conference.” In the current race, he’s spent several million dollars backing her over Tshibaka via his Senate Leadership Fund PAC.
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The Federalist reports that the Alaskan Republican
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