Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka had a full complement of supporters in Fairbanks. She received a standing ovation when she took to the podium on Friday to deliver a message that was unifying for the 350 people in the audience at the Westmark Conference center.
At the Republican State Convention’s opening breakfast, Tshibaka said that she has visited over 50 communities in Alaska, that she is hearing from people who are tired of feeling like their government is against them, rather than for them. Tshibaka said that Lisa Murkowski, by her votes to confirm 90 percent of President Joe Biden’s nominees, has hurt Alaska families repeatedly. She mentioned Murkowski’s vote to confirm Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was devastating to Alaska.
Tshibaka addressed the millions of dollars Murkowski has in her campaign war chest.
“She cares so much about being popular with the leftist insiders in DC that she votes a large majority of the time with Chuck Schumer and is taking substantial campaign contributions from Big Tech, radical environmentalists, and leftist organizations,” Tshibaka said. “She’s also getting millions of dollars from [Mitch] McConnell and his team of D.C. insiders. I expect Murkowski and her surrogates will use those millions to continue attacking the endorsed Republican in this race … They’ll use it to continue mocking my faith, launching personal attacks, and making up more allegations against me. But they aren’t really attacking me, they’re attacking us and our Alaska values. And fundamentally, McConnell is attacking the decisions our Republican Party has made – to formally censure Sen. Murkowski for all her votes against the interests of Alaska and to officially endorse me as the Republican candidate for Senate,” she said.
The audience at the Republican convention was in her corner. They rose and applauded enthusiastically as she approach the microphone to speak, and then rose and applauded again after she completed her remarks on Friday morning.
Tshibaka has received the endorsement of the Alaska Republican Party for Senate.
Watch Tshibaka’s remarks on the Must Read Alaska Facebook page at this link.
