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Breaking news: Moderate Republican candidate Tara Sweeney is bowing out of the Congressional race.

August 23, 2022

“Looking at the outcome of the Regular Primary election, I don’t see a path to victory, nor to raise the resources needed to be successful this November,” Sweeney said in aSweeney finished fourth in the Aug. 16 primary for the next full term in the U.S. House, but well behind the frontrunners, Democrat Mary Peltola, Republican Sarah Palin and Nick Begich III, also a Republican. She captured less than 4% of the primary vote. Still, it was enough to earn her a spot on the November ballot.

In that case, the Division of Elections ruled that Sweeney, who finished fifth in the special primary, could not move up to the special general ballot because Gross withdrew within 64 days of the next election.“If a candidate who advances out of the primary withdraws 64 or more days before the general election, the fifth place candidate will advance instead,” a Division of Elections spokeswoman said by email.

 

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