another nail in the prog casket eh.
Republican Dan Sullivan bested Democratic incumbent Mark Begich in Alaska's Senate race, picking up an eighth seat for the GOP in the 2014 midterm elections, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
The race was too close to call on the night of the Nov. 4 election. Under Alaska law, elections workers had to wait a week before counting the 20,000 absentee ballots.
“This was a hard-fought race,” Sullivan said in a statement. “As we move forward, I want to emphasize that my door will always be open to all Alaskans.”
Begich had not conceded, according to AP. His campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Bloomberg Politics.
Sullivan, a former Alaska attorney general who served as assistant secretary of state in former President George W. Bush’s administration, campaigned using the same playbook that worked for so many other challengers this year: Running against an unpopular Democratic president.
"Our country is on the wrong track and it's Barack Obama's failed policies that put us there," said Sullivan in his closing ad. "There's nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed by what's right with Alaska."
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Republican SullivanÂ*Defeats Alaska Democratic SenatorÂ*Begich,Â*AP Reports - Bloomberg Politics
Republican Dan Sullivan bested Democratic incumbent Mark Begich in Alaska's Senate race, picking up an eighth seat for the GOP in the 2014 midterm elections, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
The race was too close to call on the night of the Nov. 4 election. Under Alaska law, elections workers had to wait a week before counting the 20,000 absentee ballots.
“This was a hard-fought race,” Sullivan said in a statement. “As we move forward, I want to emphasize that my door will always be open to all Alaskans.”
Begich had not conceded, according to AP. His campaign did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Bloomberg Politics.
Sullivan, a former Alaska attorney general who served as assistant secretary of state in former President George W. Bush’s administration, campaigned using the same playbook that worked for so many other challengers this year: Running against an unpopular Democratic president.
"Our country is on the wrong track and it's Barack Obama's failed policies that put us there," said Sullivan in his closing ad. "There's nothing wrong with America that can't be fixed by what's right with Alaska."
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Republican SullivanÂ*Defeats Alaska Democratic SenatorÂ*Begich,Â*AP Reports - Bloomberg Politics
