Sarah Palin runs against Santa and 46 others in crowded special primary for Alaska's lone congressional seat
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Voters in Alaska will pick from a huge list of candidates in a special election on Saturday to fill the seat of the late Republican Congressman Don Young, who represented Alaska from 1973 until his death earlier this year at the age of 88 in a plane crash.
Former Alaska Governor and Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin is among the 48 candidates running in the open primary. Palin, Republican businessman Nick Begich III and independent fisherman and doctor Al Gross, who ran for Senate in 2020, are seen as the most likely to make it to the next round.
A May poll by Alaska Survey Research had Palin, Begich and Gross in the top three. Santa Claus, a Democratic socialist and current mayor pro tem of North Pole, Alaska, came in fourth in the poll.
