Murkowski announces she's running for reelection
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WASHINGTON — Senator Lisa Murkowski, who voted to convict Donald Trump in his second impeachment trial and has repeatedly bumped heads with the former president, announced Friday that she will run for reelection.
The ex-president, who has focused his political efforts on punishing his political opponents, endorsed a leading opponent of Murkowski in June. Kelly Tshibaka was commissioner of Alaska's Department of Administration before resigning to run for the Senate. In July, the Alaska Republican State Central Committee endorsed Tshibaka after Murkowski's impeachment vote.
"My heart is, and always has been, in Alaska, and that's why I am proud to announce my campaign for reelection to the US Senate in 2022," Murkowski, 64, said in a statement. She emphasized that she has always made Alaska, its industries and its people her top priority.
There's no making up for what Olympic hurdler Lashinda Demus lost on the day she finished .07 seconds behind a Russian opponent who, everyone later learned, was doping. What the American 400-meter hurdles champion will finally receive is a great day under the Eiffel Tower where she'll be presented with the gold medal she was denied 12 years ago at the London Olympics.