Republican Dan Sullivan has won the Alaska Senate race, ousting Democratic incumbent Mark Begich, according to The Associated Press, which called the race for Sullivan late Tuesday night following the first day of counting early and absentee ballots.
Sullivan leads Begich by 7,911 votes, according to the latest tally. Even though Begich gained some ground on Tuesday, and thousands of ballots are left to be counted, the AP said “the results indicated that Begich could not overcome Sullivan’s lead.”
“I am deeply humbled and honored to be chosen by my fellow Alaskans to serve them in the United States Senate,” Sullivan said in a statement. “From day one we told our supporters that we would run a campaign that Alaskans could be proud of, and that’s what we did.”
Begich’s campaign is not conceding, the AP reported.
As I think some of you are aware I essentially determined that Mark Begich did not have a chance of pulling out a victory here the day after the election.
In response I received a rather ugly e-mail accusing me of essentially being a traitor and of hurting his chances by writing him off before the ballots had been counted. I am not sure how my post could make ballots magically disappear but apparently I have incredible powers of which I remain blissfully unaware.
Look I doubt there are too many people up here that wanted Mark to win more than I did. Hell I even had the only Mark Begich sign for several blocks around.
But facts are facts, and as progressives we respect the facts.
This election was obviously for sale, and in the end the Democrats simply did not have the money to compete.
It is clear to everybody that Dan Sullivan is a Koch whore, and he is certainly not the only one representing us in Washington.
And look who finally came out to connect her name to Sullivan now that it is no longer a political liability.
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