Democrat Won’t Concede Alaska Senate Election
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iStock/Thinkstock(JUNEAU, Alaska) — Alaska Senator-elect Dan Sullivan has to hold off on a victory celebration because the incumbent has yet to concede.
On Tuesday, the Alaska Division of Elections completed its first full day of counting votes since Election Day and the margins did not change much. Sullivan, the Republican, has 48.58 percent of the vote to Democratic Senator Mark Begich’s 45.37 percent. Sullivan now leads Begich by 7,911 votes.
However, Begich announced Wednesday that he won’t concede because all of the votes have yet to be counted.
“Senator Begich believes every vote deserves to be counted in this election,” Begich’s campaign manager Susanne Fleek-Green said in a statement, maintaining there are still tens of thousands of outstanding votes.
The vote count, therefore, will continue Friday although the steep deficit is likely impossible to overcome.
If Begich is finally declared the winner, the Republicans will own a 53-46 majority in the Senate with the race in Louisiana to be decided next month in a run-off.
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