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Nicholas Begich: “More than half of Alaskans want to see ranked choice voting…”

Featuring: Nicholas Begich, Republican | U.S. House Alaska At-large District

The Battle for Alaska's Sole House Seat: Nick Begich on House Candidacy

Published June 23, 2024 | Video Starts at 42:44

It should appear on the ballot this November. And I think a lot of Alaskans, in fact, the data has shown up till this point that More than half of Alaskans want to see ranked choice voting go away. We have to deal with it right now. And I think the best way deal with ranked choice voting, my opinion is to self impose a primary. (42:44–42:49)

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Asserts that over 50% of Alaskans oppose ranked choice voting.

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“The left, the hard left, has hijacked today's Democrat party.”
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“We all see it is a polarized society where there's very little overlap between the two parties because the ideologies are fundamentally…”
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“Our constitution enshrines the rights that we have been given by God.”
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“They [Israel] are the regional counterweight to terrorism throughout the Middle East, specifically in Iran.”
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“It's the radical left today that is trying to deconstruct that constitutional republic, that form of government that we so value.”
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“Government should be as small as possible.”
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“The regulatory state should be greatly diminished.”
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“People want to be left alone.”
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“We have a religious activist left.”
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“Regular people are sick of it.”
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“That's part of why we've seen Donald Trump do so well over the last several years, because he resonates with people.”
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“It's about protecting the family, protecting kids, protecting young women from competition, from men in sports.”
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“This actually is, this actually feels like [the most important election of your lifetime].”
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“Gasoline doesn't come from the gas station. It comes from oil that gets refined, that moves through the supply chain and arrives at a gas…”
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“We have become so disconnected, disassociated with the origin story of the resources that we have in life that we think that they're always…”
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“If they raise the cost of those resources, if they diminish our ability to develop those resources, we're not going to have them.”
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“We have hollowed out our manufacturing base and we rely on the value of that dollar.”
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“We need to get people in Congress who will have fiscal discipline, help balance that budget, reduce the deficit at a minimum so that we can…”
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“If we lose that reserve currency status, the things that we consume because we don't produce them, we won't be able to continue to consume…”
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“I was his first congressional endorsement in the country.”
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“We only get one [representative in the United States House]. There's 435 members of the United States House, and we get one that's less than…”
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“She [Mary Peltola] has an extraordinarily mixed record when it comes to resource development.”
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“She [Mary Peltola] has one of the highest staff turnovers in the entire Congress.”
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“She [Mary Peltola] may be in the top two for staff turnover.”
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“She's [Mary Peltola] someone who's voted for Hakeem Jeffries to be speaker nearly 20 times.”
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“I met with Representative Pete Stauber and his chief, and I asked him permission to be able to tell this story.”
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“Representative Pete Stauber worked on this bill on behalf of Alaskans.”
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“Mary Palatola in committee votes for it, says she's supportive of it. It hits the House floor, and she sends a dear colleague letter to all…”
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“When it actually came up for the vote, she [Mary Peltola] didn't vote yes. She didn't vote no. She voted present.”
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“There is a message, too, that a Democrat would be rather effective at carrying on resource development.”
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“The resources we develop in Alaska, we do better than essentially anywhere on earth.”
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“The administration, our gubernatorial administration, is actually suing the federal government because of this attempted preemptive veto of…”
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“They're suing for hundreds of billions of dollars because when the state selected these lands, they did so at statehood because they…”
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“To preemptively take that off the table is a taking. That's a taking of the state of Alaska's resources from Alaskans.”
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“We have Mary Peltola trying to take it off the table. She's trying to take hundreds of billions of dollars of opportunity to take that, to…”
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“You've got a candidate with Mary Peltola who's raised around a million dollars and growing, certainly will be well over a million, maybe a…”
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“More than 90% of the money that Mary Peltola has raised in this campaign has come from outside the state.”
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“There are 20,000, more than 20,000 registered lobbyists in DC.”
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“There are only 535 members of the Senate and the House combined.”
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“90% of the lobbyists in DC are there to protect their business or industry from competition or to get money from the government.”
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“90% of the time she's [Mary Peltola] voting with Nancy Pelosi.”
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“85% of the time, Ilhan Omar, she's [Mary Peltola] voting with.”
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“Israel has been our long standing ally in the Middle East.”
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“In the aftermath of 911, Israel gave us tremendous intelligence.”
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“Decision Desk HQ came out here just last week and gave us a 53% chance of taking the seat back.”
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“Trump's going to win Alaska by ten to 20 points, probably closer to 20.”
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“I was proud to put my name on the repeal petition for ranked choice voting.”
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“Polling shows that I am tied with Mary Peltola once the roll up effects of ranked choice voting are taken into account.”
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“The Democrat has outraised the Republicans in this race something like seven to one combined.”
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“The Congressional Leadership Fund has already allocated over $5 million in television spending.”
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“The NRCC and the Congressional Leadership Fund did not spend significant amounts of resources in Alaska [in the last election cycle].”
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“Alaska is a deep red state.”
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“We have seen in the data that a lot of [Palin supporters] have come over already.”
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“More than 60% of Sarah Palin's voters put me second on their ballot.”
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“Mary Peltola has endorsed and continues to support Joe Biden.”
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“Joe Biden to her, was one of the most articulate, intelligent people she'd met in Washington, DC.”
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“He does not have all of his faculties.”
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“If this is the person's judgment that we're sending on behalf of Alaskans to DC to make decisions for us, well, we got some problems.”
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“Shutting down Alaska prevents us from achieving any of those dreams, any of those ideals.”
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“Alaska has more estimated undiscovered oil and gas resources than any other state in the country.”
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“We have not billions, not hundreds of billions, but trillions of dollars in mineral wealth waiting to be unlocked for the benefit of the…”
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“It's good for Alaska, it's good for America. It's good for jobs, it's good for energy security, it's good for mineral security, it's good…”
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