>> Sarah Palin has failed at her most recent attempt at a political comeback.
She lost the special election for a vacant house seat in Alaska.
That seat is now flipping to a Democrat for the first time since 1972.
>> That's right, Democrat Mary Peltola won the special election to fill
Alaska's house seat for the remainder of 2022.
So that means that there will be yet another election in November of this year.
But between now and then again Mary Peltola,
an Alaska native will be filling that seat.
The real news here is that Sarah Palin lost.
She fell about 5000 votes short after Republican Nick Begich the third
was eliminated and his supporters second choice votes were actually redistributed.
Second choice votes what does that mean?
Well, this was the first election in Alaska where they
implemented ranked choice voting.
And of course Palin is blaming this new system for her loss.
But at the end of the day,
when you look at the way some of the Republican voters in the State voted.
It gives you a sense of how much displeasure the people of Alaska probably
feel toward Palin.
Who let me remind you, decided to quit the first term of her
governorship midway through and decided to chase Fox news and celebrity instead.
Now Palin will get another shot at the house race in a few months as she and
Peltola are among those vying to fill the full term in a separate
election in November.
With Peltola's victory, the former state lawmaker will flip the seat held for
nearly half a century by the late GOP representative Don Young and
is set to become the first Alaska native in Congress.
And remember that Palin again resigned halfway through her term as governor.
And the state has also started using this new rank choice voting method.
What does that mean?
Well Palin criticized rank choice voting in a statement after the results were
released on Wednesday calling it a new crazy, convoluted, confusing system.
Now, if you're wondering how that works in open primaries that include candidates of
all parties.
Voters cast one ballot for their top choice and
then the top four vote getters advance.
Then in the general election,
voters rank those four candidates first through fourth, okay?
And Palin says, quote, though we're disappointed in this outcome,
Alaskans know I'm the last one who will ever retreat,
instead I'm going to reload, okay?
With optimism that Alaskans learn from this voting system mistake and
corrected in the next election.
Let's work even harder to send an America first conservative to Washington in
November.
So what should she mean by learn from this mistake?
Is she blaming the voters,is she claiming that the voters were
too dumb to understand how this system works.
Anyway, good luck doesn't seem like the people of Alaska like you.
In fact some polls show that three and five don't like her at all.
And it could be because of the fact that she abandoned them for celebrity.
>> Okay, there are two giant elements in this story.
And the fact that Sarah Palin lost that she's just kind of celebrity
at this point is the third interesting point in this story, but
it's overshadowed substantively by the other two.
So in ranked choice voting which I love, okay?
Sarah Palin should have won, and I'll tell you why,
because the top four were two Democrats and two Republicans.
But the other Democrat dropped out roasted and now so the remaining
Democrat had all the democratic votes and that's why she finished first.
So I don't even know what Sarah Palin and [INAUDIBLE] are complaining about.
It's not Sarah Palin ever finished first in any round of voting, no,
the Democrat did.
She got 40% of the vote Democrat did.
But then at that point there's two Republicans left in ranked choice voting.
Presumably the Republican that lost came in third Nick Baggage the third
his voters should have gone to the other Republicans Sarah Palin, but
they didn't and not enough of them went to Sarah Palin.
A lot of them went to the democrat and that's why the democrat won in a Red state
like Alaska and what that tells you is and I'm actually slightly surprised by this.
There are actually still republicans left that don't want to vote for
extreme republicans like Sarah Palin that they would prefer to vote for a democrat
rather than extreme lunatic republican color me shocked by that No, I'm serious.
I'm because there was a big chunk of voters there and
I'm very surprised by that, and that's great news for the country.
And of course the other giant news to come out of this is I think the republicans
are running straight into an iceberg called the abortion issue.
And and so this is now probably the third election where they
are shocking defeat and and the democrat ran on a pro choice agenda.
Yeah, that's right.
So I want to talk about the strategy that we saw from mary pell Tola because her
focus was on two main issues and that was reproductive rights and the importance of
empowering labor and supporting labor unions and those are incredibly popular
messages, especially right now when people are seeing their rights being stripped
away from them by this theocratic Supreme Court and and workers are feeling more
frustrated than ever at both their pay and their working conditions in the middle
of inflation when it comes to important things like food and gas and all of that.
And I think that that was a winning message.
She understands the right strategy, the right issues to tackle while campaigning
and now you see all of these different examples junk of these right wingers who
we're just so vociferous in their support of stripping women of their bodily
autonomy and now they're kind of being a little more measured with the way that
they talk about these issues, or they run away from their own constituents when
they're simply asked about their stance on these reproductive rights issues.
And let me remind you about what went down in Kansas,
which is by no means a blue state, right in Kansas, as we had shared with you,
the voters overwhelmingly rejected a ballot initiative that would
have taken reproductive rights out of their state constitution,
thus paving the way for abortion bans within the state.
But as you guys know, the voters decided no,
we're not going to vote in favor of that.
Kansas had a voter registration spike of 1030 8% after roe
v wade was overturned mail in voting doubled turnout in 2022 doubled from 2018.
I mean, you guys are getting the picture here, right and 2022 of course,
is a midterm year Kansas abortion amendment.
About 59% voted no, 41% voted yes.
And as you guys know, the pro choice side won,
Kansas had about 458,000 Republican voters,
versus 281,000 Democratic voters 184,000 independent voters.
So I give you that break down because it seems like there might be
some Republican voters who ain't about the abortion bans either.
And that's not surprising when you pull people nationally and see that,
you know, 70-plus% of Americans are not in favor of restricting abortion access jake.
Okay, guys, put these three points together.
Okay, so, look at the math on what anna just told you in Kansas.
First of all, all four districts voted pro choice,
including there's a couple of districts in Kansas that are deep red, right.
Even the deep red districts in Kansas were like no pro choice.
That's amazing.
And the Stanton and
a radio about the number of people who showed up to vote was mainly,
I explained this in the conversation in an interview I had with Brent welder who's
from Kansas it the primaries in Kansas were mainly for republicans.
So that's why there was almost as many republicans as democrats and
independents combined.
But pro choice one anyway and 1 60 to 40.
So that means a ton of republicans voted pro choice.
So that's huge.
That's 400.1 point two Pat Ryan in pennsylvania.
They said, there's eight times as many people registering to vote as there
would be before a normal election.
Maybe it's because of ro he ran aggressively on pro choice.
The polling of likely voters showed that he was supposed to lose by eight instead.
He won by four because all the new people who registered are not likely voters,
but they all showed up to vote and it created a 12 point swing now.
Sarah Palin loses in Alaska to someone running on an aggressively
pro choice agenda.
No, the republicans are in a world of trouble.
That's why they're backpedaling like crazy.
That's why tom cotton today.
Like it must have been the ranked choice voting.
It was right.
It was rigged.
Okay brother, go ahead.
Run your pro life campaign.
See how it turns out for you.
Everything was rigged and
then blake masters a lunatic who's in favor of dictators.
Okay.
Did I say abortion, scrub the website, scrub it, scrub it?
I didn't say pro life, pro line dr Oz is backpedaling now.
You gotta make exceptions for rape and
that's not what you were saying during the primary.
They realize they're they're right in the middle of hitting that iceberg.