Republican gubernatorial candidates Dave Bronson and Treg Taylor have come together for a new video urging conservative voters to rank all three Alaska GOP candidates on the November ballot.
The video, which was paid for by the Bronson campaign, comes just a week after GOP frontrunner Bernadette Wilson called on Bronson and Taylor to suspend their campaigns and rally around her as the conservative choice for governor.
In the August jungle primary, Wilson was the top GOP vote-getter with 10% of the vote. She finished in third place behind left-wing Democrats Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins (22.5%) and Tom Begich (20.8%). Bronson finished fourth with 8.1% and Taylor finished in fifth at 7.2%. Since Begich agreed to drop out, that moved Taylor into the final-four grouping, which will appear on the Nov. 3 ballot.
Wilson has insisted that the best chance for a Republican to win the gubernatorial race is for Bronson and Taylor to exit and consolidate their followers behind her.
Taylor ends by claiming that if Republican voters rank all three GOP candidates, “we will have a Republican governor.”
While Bronson and Taylor don’t won’t be quitting, they do want to unite the GOP base as much as possible. The new video does not mention Wilson by name, but it does encourage voters to rank all three Republicans on the ballot.
The video begins by stating that both Bronson and Taylor oppose the ranked-choice voting system, while noting that Alaskans are stuck with it, for now. If Ballot Measure 2 passes, however, Alaska will ditch ranked-choice and return to its long-standing, traditional election system going forward.
“The November election is ranked-choice,” Bronson observes. “If you only vote one Republican, your vote can be exhausted – thrown away entirely.”
That would happen if a voter only chooses one candidate and fails to rank any others. If no candidate wins more than 50% of the vote in the first round, the candidate with the fewest first-place votes gets eliminated and all his second-choice votes are awarded to the remaining candidates. If a voter declines to rank any other candidates, then their ballot would be tossed in round 2.
“That’s how JKT wins and Republican votes die,” Taylor notes in the video.
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Bronson then urges voters to make sure their ballot doesn’t “die early” by just voting for one GOP candidate.
“Fill out every Republican line,” he implores.
In a playful moment, the video shows both Taylor and Bronson urging voters to choose them as their “number one” choice.
The 49-second clip ends by stating that “ranking all three does not help JKT.”
Rather, “It keeps conservative votes in the count until the final round,” Bronson concludes.
Taylor ends by claiming that if Republican voters rank all three GOP candidates, “we will have a Republican governor.”
The slogan for the video is, “Rank 1,2,3 – just not JKT”
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I thank both of you for doing this, I wish you Would have done more and dropped out. Thanks to RCV the governor candidate field was way over crowded. The truth is Bernadette won the primary fair and square. Number crunching poll came out about 5 days ago that said both of you have 0 chance of winning. Because you both decided not to fold we are probably going to get an extremely hard core left winger for governor. So get ready for state income tax and a whole lot more. Right now it would be much better if you would instruct all your supporters to rank Bernadet as their first choice and rank both of you as 2 or 3. You are both smart enough to know the outcome. please help us all avoid JKT as an answer to our problems. Thank you gentlemen.
No matter what republicans do I’m certain they’ll end up licking the floor of the democrats! All it takes is bribery like twinkees in their lunch box!
So, both of these fools are supposing that they will end up with all the votes for Bernadette, and one of them will end up governor. I can’t imagine a worse scenario. Drop out, you dorks, and let the woman win. It won’t end civilization as you know it, and it probably won’t make you any less of a man, to do the right thing. Yeah, I know, not gonna happen. These boys can’t get over themselves for our common good. /spit
What happens to civilization when a woman leaves her underage daughter behind to be raised by someone else while she runs off to govern the state?
Please, get your lazy blank off the couch and vote. Or yes we will get that rainbow flag loving JKT as our governor.
These yeo boys can’t unite behind their own party primaries winner but they are going to save Alaska right?
Right?
The GOP has no idea how to win or govern. Sad display of ego and ignorance in this election. They will screw us all
The Only chance for a Republican governor is that Berndadette is ranked First by All. That is the Only way not to split the Republican vote in the first round. There will not be a second round, because the Dems – wise as serpents – have consolidated their vote into the first.
And the only way to ensure that Bernadette is ranked First by All is that Bronson & Taylor step aside…. Instead they playfully hand over the soul of Alaska and the lives of yet unborn Alaskans to the serpents, by urging a split vote in favor of themselves.
Bronson just threw Dunleavy under the bus by going over Dunleavy’s head consulting with trump about the gasline!!!!! Hilarious!!!
Taylor and Bronson are Democrats running as republicans. Don’t have to be a rocket scientist to do the RCV math. History has proven divide and conquer. Wilson has the majority. They both need to drop out for an honest election to occur.