![]() Coming into this race, she had never won a general election with more than 50% of the vote. She won a general election write-in campaign in 2010 after losing her party primary that year to a tea party Republican. Murkowski is no stranger to tough reelection fights. Don Young, who held Alaska's House seat for 49 years. Murkowski, a moderate who has been in the Senate since 2002, is the most senior member of Alaska’s congressional delegation following the death in March of Republican Rep. Murkowski, who was censured by state Republican party leaders last year for offenses that included her impeachment vote, paid little attention to Trump during a campaign in which she emphasized a willingness to work across party lines and focused on her record and seniority. ![]() Tshibaka, who worked in federal inspectors general offices before leading the Alaska Department of Administration for two years, credited Trump with helping to raise her name recognition and give her candidacy a boost. He more recently participated in a tele-rally for Tshibaka in late October. He appeared at a rally in Anchorage in July for Tshibaka and Sarah Palin, whose run for Alaska's lone U.S. In 2020, before that year's election and far before Tshibaka jumped into the Senate race, Trump announced plans to campaign against Murkowski after she criticized him: "Get any candidate ready, good or bad, I don’t care, I’m endorsing. ![]() But her vote was a sore point for the former president, who vowed to campaign against her. Murkowski was the only Senate Republican who voted to convict Trump at his impeachment trial last year who was on the ballot this year. The race also included Republican Buzz Kelley, who suspended his campaign after the August primary and endorsed Tshibaka. “The new election system has been frustrating to many Alaskans, because it was indisputably designed as an incumbent-protection program, and it clearly worked as intended,” she said. Tshibaka in a statement posted on her website congratulated Murkowski but took fault with ranked choice voting. “I look forward to continuing the important work ahead of us.” “I am honored that Alaskans - of all regions, backgrounds and party affiliations - have once again granted me their confidence to continue working with them and on their behalf in the U.S. Murkowski wound up with 54% of the vote after ranked choice voting, picking up a majority of the votes cast for Democrat Pat Chesbro after she was eliminated. The results were announced Wednesday, when elections officials tabulated the ranked choice results after neither candidate won more than 50% of first-choice votes. Lisa Murkowski has won reelection, defeating Donald Trump-endorsed GOP rival Kelly Tshibaka. View Record in the Biographical Directory of the U.S.Alaska Republican U.S. Senate in 2004 unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 2010, but subsequently elected as a write-in candidate in the November 2, 2010, general election, for the term ending Janureelected in 2016, and again in 2022 for the term ending JanuRepublican Conference vice-chair (2009-2010) chair, Committee on Energy and Natural Resources (One Hundred Fourteenth through One Hundred Sixteenth Congresses). Senate on December 20, 2002, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of her father, Frank H. in Economics, Georgetown University 1980 J.D., Willamette College of Law 1985 attorney member, Alaska Bar Association Anchorage District Court attorney 1987-1989 private practice 1989-1996 Mayor's Task Force on the Homeless 1990-1991 Anchorage Equal Rights Commission 1997-1998 Alaska State house of representatives 1999-2002 appointed to the U.S. MURKOWSKI, Lisa, (Daughter of Frank Hughes Murkowski), a Senator from Alaska born in Ketchikan, Alaska, on attended public schools in Fairbanks, AK attended Willamette University in Salem, Oregon, 1975-1977 B.A.
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