justice. plus, joe biden s primetime punch. the president tonight will use a national address to warn republicans are actively working in his view to undermine american democracy. and sarah palin loses in her alaska comeback attempt. a democrat won the special house election. so did advocates of what is called rank choice vote. a first for us, though. a court showdown next hour over the fbi s search of donald trump s mar-a-lago. the justice department says it did everything by the book and that its investigation should continue full speed ahead. team trump, though, is objecting and asking a judge to name a special master. that s an independent third party to review the materials taken from the former president s hotel, home and office. the hearing is before a trump-appointed judge who is already on record leaning in favor of a special master. team trump last night responded to a detailed government filing asserting that trump had no standing to ask for a special master and as
1. Suppose you are governor and you have a majority in the State Senate and House that would support you on a budget. How would you craft a budget (including an Alaska Permanent Fund dividend) in the face of shifting revenues from petroleum and permanent fund earnings? What options would you consider, such as new revenues (income or sales taxes), cuts in services, or adjustments to the dividend? In other words, how would you solve the issue of a long-term sustainable fiscal plan?
because you might need to be their second choice. and the flip side, if you re a democrat to have a conversation with republicans because you might need to be their second choice. the question is does that catch on with people or, you know, some view it as the idea is to mitigate polarization. the question is is it a gimmick? it s hard to say right now whether a number of other states across the country are going to adopt a format like this but alaskan voters wanted this. they are the ones that decided that they wanted their state to go through this process. that s another thing to keep in mind as republicans are arguing that this was something that disenfranchised alaskan voters when the electeds there as well as the voters decided that they wanted this process. you know, it also forces candidates to not run quite a negative a campaign as you might otherwise. there was a lot of conversation that perhaps the begich versus palin turned a lot of people off to both of them and that re
exhaustion which disenfranchises voters, a democrat won. adam kinzinger a republican who s leaving congress and on the january 6th committee, says ranked choice voting gives voters a royce and not choice extremes on the party. the question is do more states copy in? we actually see a push to install ranked choice voting in nevada where not only republicans but also some democrats oppose the move to do this. the interesting thing to me about alaska, though, is the second choice votes here came from begich voters who clearly didn t want sarah palin, they wanted a democrat instead. so the test here for this process is how the vote total s going to shake out when they all go back in november for the general election. she has peltola four months to come to washington and say look what i ve done for you. but the ranked choice voting if you haven t followed it the advocates of it say it forces you if you re a republican to have a conversation with democrats and independents
do these special elections just tell us that democrats are very engaged right now and when we get lower propensity voters joining the elect rast it may even out a little bit? i m not sure. alaska will be an interesting test of that because we re going to have back-to-back races here. the other thing i would just say about alaska also, i mean, when i went up there and covered, it was actually senator begich who was recently a democratic senator from alaska who lost back in 2014, it is a state that holds on to its individuality in a very aggressive and unique way. and i think any of us i sort of made the vow to myself i m not going to be here in washington if i haven t been there recently and explain to people what s going on there because it s a very special place. i think it s easily a state that could send peltola and also lisa murkowski to washington come november. one thing that s also striking is again, yes, as kasie said, alaska is its own unique place but democratic data firm