serve in congress, defeated. former governor and republican vice presidential nominee sarah palin with nearly 55% of the vote. that is a live stream, i imagine, of the ranked choice voting that they beam out to the world as they tabulate there. the alaska elections. this has been another not-so-great run up to thanksgiving for palin, 14 years after her infamous turkey pardoning gaffe, with a weak stomach, you may want to look away. oh well, this was neat. i was happy to get to be invited to participate in this, and, you know. for one, you need a little bit of levity in this job, especially with so much that has gone on in the last couple of months that has been so political, obviously. it is nice to get out and do something to promote a local business and just participate in something that isn t so heavy-handed politics, that invites criticism.
but who is that being sold to. and it is the case, i think, that if the president were, like, convicted of a felony, that would change the field. [laughter] and if you re mike pence, you might be able to help bring that along. you know, look, i think you are absolutely right, chris, that anybody wants to seek the votes of the american people have to figure out, one , how are they running, who are they, who are they going to be. and who are they telling the american public they are. and which of that public are they trying to get on their side. you know, white suburban women, are someone everyone s trying to get on their side. i say that explicitly if you think about politics, because you are also thinking about white suburban women and something that trump i mean, pence actually said in his interview. which he said, you know, after trump tried to pressure him and he saw the tweet that went out that pence put him in danger, put him in harm s way , in fact, as we saw, put it in risk
which used to be one of the key recipes of politics that has been kind of lost. but i think it resurrected a little bit in these midterms. right, part of ranked choice voting is part of the story here. part of the broader story, i think, is a rejection of sarah palin styles of politics. trumpist politics, obviously. the loss of all of these stop and steal candidates. and i think, i don t think that you can underestimate the impact of abortion and the dobbs decision in this race. you know, i think that she ran, mary peltola, ran as the pro-choice pro fisheries candidate. right, she was pro-choice and she was pro fisheries. she is one of the most fascinating members of congress , i think, in the entire country. and she now has been reelected in a short span. she will be representing the state of alaska in there at large seat held for decades by don young. michelle goldberg, great to have you, thanks again. thank you. still ahead, two mass shootings thousands of miles apart, appar
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