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NRSC pledges to stick with Miller in Alaska
The National Republican Senatorial Committee is pledging to stand behind Republican Joe Miller, who has yet to concede to write-in candidate Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
"The NRSC has been assisting the Miller campaign from day one and we continue to assist his campaign,” spokesman Brian Walsh said in an e-mail. “There are still thousands of ballots left to be counted in the days ahead, and it will be at least two weeks before the write-in ballots will be reviewed, so like everyone else we will continue to closely monitor this race as it unfolds."
The “write-in candidate” in the three-race for Murkowski’s seat reached 41 percent of the vote with nearly all the precincts reporting. Many analysts consider this a magic target, and Murkowski is expected to have earned the bulk of those write-in votes.
Miller said it is premature to concede the race given that write-in votes will not be individually counted until Nov. 18. With 98.6 percent of the precincts counted, Miller had just more than 34 percent of the vote, followed by Democrat Scott McAdams at nearly 24 percent.
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