“The impacts of climate change and extreme weather events on the grid, mostly in the form of drought and heat waves, are going to get worse under climate change.'
Later this year, Sen. Lisa Murkowski, a Republican, is likely to face a challenge from a former state official, Kelly Tshibaka, who has been endorsed by former President Donald Trump. Although elections in Alaska rarely make headlines outside the state, this race is likely to be an exception and will be watched closely as a test of Trump’s strength within the GOP.
This new system passed, narrowly, by voter referendum in 2020. It is intended to make the final choice of the voters more representative of the state. The hope is that it will reduce the grip that the most intense partisans on each side of the political spectrum exercise on U.S. elections through closed party primaries, followed by plurality winners in general elections.
It opens the door to the possibility that elected officials will be rewarded more for working together with others and fixing problems. The current system, reformers argue, instead rewards politicians for performative fighting and punishes them for productive compromise. Efforts are ongoing and in various stages in Missouri, Georgia, Utah and Colorado as well, Gehl said.
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