Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has won Alaska’s gubernatorial election, defeating Trump-endorsed Republican Bernadette Wilson and flipping the governor’s mansion.<\/p>\n
The Associated Press called the race for Kreiss-Tomkins, a former state lawmaker, Friday evening local time. He is the first Democratic governor in Alaska since 1998.<\/p>\n
Alaska’s gubernatorial election became an unusual contest as Republicans battled among themselves over who should succeed Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who was barred from seeking a third consecutive term.<\/p>\n
A BLUE WAVE IN GOVERNORS’ MANSIONS COULD HURT FAMILIES MORE THAN A BLUE CONGRESS<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Wilson, a conservative activist and former political operative, received President Donald Trump’s endorsement<\/a> during a campaign in which multiple Republicans competed for the governor’s office.<\/p>\n Trump publicly criticized fellow Republicans<\/a> Dave Bronson and Treg Taylor, accusing them of dividing conservative voters and potentially jeopardizing the party’s hold on the governorship.<\/p>\n Bronson, a former Anchorage mayor<\/a>, and Taylor, a former Alaska attorney general, remained part of the Republican field, creating a complicated general-election contest.<\/p>\n ALASKAN POLITICAL SCION HOPES TO HOLD ONTO STATE’S SINGLE HOUSE SEAT<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n Kreiss-Tomkins, a former state representative from Sitka<\/a>, emerged as the Democratic contender, seeking to return his party to the governor’s mansion after Dunleavy’s two terms.<\/p>\n The election unfolded under Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system<\/a>, which allows voters to rank candidates in order of preference.<\/p>\n SIGN UP TO GET THE POLITICS NEWSLETTER<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n If no candidate receives a majority of first-choice votes, the lowest-performing candidate is eliminated and those ballots are redistributed according to voters’ next preferences. The process continues until a candidate secures a majority among continuing ballots.<\/p>\n The system has added an unusual dynamic to Alaska politics, allowing multiple candidates from the same party to compete in the general election without a traditional partisan runoff.<\/p>\n The contest also came as Alaska remained a reliably Republican state in presidential elections, despite occasionally electing Democrats and independents to statewide office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins has won Alaska’s gubernatorial election, defeating Trump-endorsed Republican Bernadette Wilson and flipping the governor’s mansion. The Associated Press called the race for Kreiss-Tomkins, a former state lawmaker, Friday evening local time. He is the first Democratic governor in Alaska since 1998. Alaska’s gubernatorial election became an unusual contest as Republicans battled among … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81308","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81308","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81308"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81308\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81308"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81308"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81308"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}