In Alaska, Dunleavy Prepares MAGA Challenge to Murkowski
For the MAGA movement, Dunleavy’s run could be the long-awaited showdown to finally retire Murkowski.
Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, long a thorn in the side of President Trump and his America First agenda, could finally be facing the kind of primary challenge conservatives have been waiting for. According to FOX News, Gov. Mike Dunleavy is preparing to take her on in 2028.
“He’s not going to quit his term,” a top source close to Dunleavy who used to work with him in Juneau, Alaska, told Fox News Digital of the governor’s long-term plans. The next Senate race in the Last Frontier falls in 2026 for incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan.
That success, allies say, would mean replacing Murkowski, who has broken with Trump time and again, with a MAGA-aligned senator.
“Obviously there are a lot of frustrations with Sen. Murkowski,” he said, adding that the disparity in Trump’s relationship between the two Alaskans is “no secret.”
Dunleavy has been close to Trump for years, being one of the first governors to endorse him in 2016.
“Trump has talked to him before about running and wants him to run,” the source revealed.
Unlike Murkowski, who has relied heavily on crossover support from Democrats and independents, Dunleavy has built a coalition that includes conservatives and Alaska Native communities, particularly those tied to oil and gas development. One political analyst said as much:
“Conservatives would welcome an opportunity to unseat Murkowski. The fact that (Trump) and Murkowski have had such a strained relationship and Dunleavy and the president having a good relationship is really what has led us to this point.”
For the MAGA movement, Dunleavy’s run could be the long-awaited showdown to finally retire Murkowski.
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Sending a walrus to DC would be an improvement over Murkowski.
Do not underestimate the sinister reach of the Murkowski machine. “Cruella de Ville” was defeated in the GOP primary in 2010, yet the machine used a dodgy write-in vote process to drag her across the finish line in the general election. Murkowski also delivered the lone US House seat into Communist hands rather than let Sarah Palin (who defeated her even more sinister father in the gubernatorial race in 2006) win.
murky is currently emptying out our bank accounts to buy her votes
Excellent. Collins is the best we can hope for in Maine, but Murkowski has to go
Murkowski is exhibit 1 of the danger inherent in ranked choice voting.
On the contrary. RCV would give the best chance of getting rid of her. Unless a majority of voters actually do want her, in which case she deserves to win.
Sen Murkowski is gonna be almost 70 with four terms in the Senate on election day. Hopefully the voters of Alaska can send her packing b/c I imagine she’s gonna be even more insufferable and uncooperative to the broader GoP agenda if she manages to win re-election to probably her last term.
“For the MAGA movement, Dunleavy’s run could be the long-awaited showdown to finally retire Murkowski.”
About damned time.
Uniparty Danny is the hardest hit.
Murkowski is considered establishment cuckservative RINO never-trumper. Surprised she hasn’t’ be primaried.
She was primaried hard last time. She used some electoral loophole (RCV?) to win the election. That and a lot of RINO money from the speaker and his pals, swamping the MAGA donations of her opponent.
It was RCV which her people pushed hard for because of the Palin threat. Sarah Palin should be Senator of Alaska right now, not Murkowski. Look up Swamp and RINO, Deep State in the Dictionary and there is Murkowski. She just won’t go away and if it takes changing the rules to stay she will get that done.
That is ridiculous. Palin never ran for senate.
Preferential voting (RCV, as they seem to be calling it lately) gives the voters exactly what they want. Whoever wins, an absolute majority of voters preferred that person over all other possible winners. It could only help Murkowsky if a majority actually prefers her. Otherwise she’d have no reason to push it, because it wouldn’t help her.
Governor of Alaska along with every other governor is an extremely important post. Is there any indication of who the governor intends on running for his current office next?
Remember Republicans have recently drawn defeat from the jaws of victory in Alaska so this is not an unimportant question.
Dunleavy hasn’t said one way or the other as of yet, I think. He has been very good on pretty much everything. Even his Covid response was great. He did implement lockdowns but quickly dropped them keeping in place only voluntary Covid shots for tourists at airports and mandatory 2 week quarantine for visitors if they didn’t have a negative Covid test. Other than that in education, energy etc he has been a great governor even surviving a Democrat attempt at a recall.
I live in Texas and he will be getting donations from me. Anything to rid us of that woman.