Alaska politician Kelly Tshibaka, who was endorsed by former President Donald Trump, launched a Senate bid Monday to problem Sen. Lisa Murkowski, one of the crucial susceptible Republicans searching for re-election this yr.
Tshibaka will seem on the August major poll as a challenger to Murkowski, who has served within the Senate for practically 20 years. In a press release Monday, she blasted the incumbent for her voting file.
“Every time she votes with her Washington, D.C. friends against the interests of Alaskans, she harms the people of this state, but she doesn’t feel it,” Tshibaka stated of Murkowski in a press release Monday. “We, the people, pay the price for her popularity.”
Tshibaka, who has questioned the 2020 presidential election outcomes and cited what she stated have been credible allegations of voter fraud, led Alaska’s Department of Administration from early 2019 till final yr.
Murkowski has been a Trump goal ever since she voted to convict him in his second impeachment trial and referred to as for his resignation after the Jan. 6 riot. The former president has additionally endorsed Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on the situation that he not help Murkowski’s re-election bid.
On Monday, Tshibaka took intention at Murkowski for voting to verify Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and criticized the senator for additionally confirming Ketanji Brown Jackson — describing her as a “leftist judge”— to the Supreme Court. Murkowski was one in all solely three Republicans to again Jackson.
In her personal marketing campaign video saying a re-election bid, Murkowski stated she was dedicated to bipartisanship.
“My commitment to Alaska is the same one I made during my first campaign,” she stated. “I will work with anyone from either party to advance Alaska’s priorities.”