Palin urges Begich to drop House bid; Begich declines

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

Palin urges Begich to drop House bid; Begich declines

By BECKY BOHRER and MARK THIESSEN
September 5, 2022

WASILLA, Alaska (AP) — Alaska U.S. House candidate Sarah Palin called on fellow Republican Nick Begich to drop out of the race Monday, holding a news conference in the same place where on a holiday weekend more than a decade ago she announced plans to resign as Alaska’s governor.

“He keeps calling me a quitter,” she told reporters, adding later: “And now he wants me, the one who is clearly the only true conservative in this race who can win, he wants me to quit! Now that’s the real joke. Sorry, Nick. I never retreat, I reload.”

Monday was the deadline for candidates to withdraw from the November general election. Begich, who was critical of Palin during the campaign, seeking to cast her as a quitter and questioning her motives in running, said Monday his campaign is “confident that we are on a positive trajectory to win in November.”

“Ranked choice voting showed that Palin simply doesn’t have enough support from Alaskans to win an election and her performance in the Special was embarrassing as a former Governor and Vice Presidential candidate,” he said in a statement Monday.

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[Prof. Toru Tanaka]

1. Palin's picking up speed as she

slides down that slippery slope to permanent irrelevancy.

[Diamond_Dog]

2. She should take her stupid gun phrases

and jump off the Bridge to Nowhere.

No one would miss her.

[marble falls]

3. Sorry Half-Govenor Palin, only one set of fifteen minutes per customer!

[EYESORE 9001]

4. 'I never retreat...'

Sez the quitter half-term guv.

[Jarqui]

15. +1 first thing I thought of when I read that ...nt

[TheBlackAdder]

5. Well, she asked nice. Now I guess it's time for MAGAt justice to prevail.

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He'll get pressured like Marjorie Greene's opponent, who backed out of the race.



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[bringthePaine]

6. the total irrelevance is truly inspiring

[DFW]

7. The final Palin-Begich shootout scene:

[chowder66]

9. Her use of "reload" is a slap in the face to all of the victims of shootings in this country.

Fuck her.

[lindysalsagal]

10. I was expecting Borowitz....

[Wounded Bear]

11. republican infighting...too bad, so sad...

[MontanaMama]

12. In the words of Stephanie Miller...

Fight fight fight! Big bag of rats!!

[JohnnyRingo]

13. "She doesn't retreat, she reloads."

Like many she saves that last bullet for when she's cornered and the end is near.
Common practice.

[Moostache]

20. May she reach that last bullet with all haste... (n/t)

[Midnight Writer]

14. Hope they eat each other up.

[IronLionZion]

16. More Republicans should fight each other

[GreatShakes66]

17. You know she had these beautiful dreams

....of lunch meetings with her new BFFLs MTG and Lauren Boebert, papparazi everywhere and Fox news interviews every week.

[crickets]

18. Too funny. Go on, split the vote again. nt

[ColinC]

19. How would it make a difference?

Begich's votes will still go to who they would go to in the next round anyways. Unless of course Palin doesn't make it to the next round...

[brooklynite]

21. The four candidates for the November election have been set.

Peltola, Palin, Begich and a Libertarian who got 1% in the Primary.

If Begich drops out, there would only be Peltola, Palin and the Libertarian. Almost all Republican votes would go to Palin in November as the only initial Republican choice.

[ColinC]

23. Right but anybody who has Peltola as the second choice to begich would just vote peltola

Instead of begich if he isn't in the race. Doesn't make sense to think they would vote for Palin just because their first choice no longer is in the race.

[dsc]

29. they might stay home and not vote at all

[ColinC]

30. Which is what the "exhaustion" represented in RCV

RCV increases turnout because it allows people to vote for more options. But it doesn't likely change the results if those options aren't available vs a more traditional system. This fact, I think, favors Peltola overall.

[PlanetBev]

22. Scorpions in a sock

Go ahead, tear each other to pieces.

[maxsolomon]

24. Is she sure she really wants to be a Congressional Rep?

it's actual work.

[keithbvadu2]

27. GOP thinks that Herschel Walker can do it.

Chortle, guffaw!

[maxsolomon]

31. They do get it done with some useless sacks, don't they?

It's almost as if they only want to make government dysfunctional.

[lees1975]

25. Even if he did

I don't think Palin could get enough support out of his supporters to pull it off. Almost 30% of them picked Peltola over Palin, along with her getting a bigger turnout of Democrats than have voted in an Alaska election in a while.

Besides, it will be nice to see him do better than she does this time around.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

26. Palin cannot win with a less crazy republican on the ballot

This will be fun to watch

[Cha]

28. You are a QUITTER Twit.. &

they ain't nothing "true" about your big Lying Assface mouth.

[keithbvadu2]

32. Campaign slogan::: Sarah Palin... Running for half a term.

Campaign slogan::: Sarah Palin... Running for half a term.