Ms Palin claimed The Times defamed her for incorrectly linking her political rhetoric to mass shootings in a 2017 editorial. A jury dismissed the trial, a day after a federal judge indicated that he would dismiss the claims if the jury ruled in his favor because his legal team failed to meet high legal standards for public figures. who claim defamation. The Times, which acknowledged and corrected the error in question shortly after it was published, has not lost a defamation case in a US court in at least 50 years.
Mr Young, 88, the longest-serving Republican in Congress and first elected in 1973, died on March 18. A scuffle broke out almost immediately between potential candidates to fill his unexpired term. Friday was the deadline for filing official paperwork, and the Alaska Elections Department had received submissions from 37 candidates as of Friday afternoon.
Ms. Palin will face both far-right and establishment Republican rivals, including Nick Begich III, the Republican descendant of Alaska political royalty; State Senator Joshua Revak, a former Iraq War soldier who previously worked for Mr. Young; and Tara Sweeney, who served as the Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs in the Trump administration.
Mr Revak’s campaign adviser Art Hackney said of Ms Palin, “She definitely has a constituency,” adding that “anyone who wants to file will have to defeat Mr Revak” to put it forward. must bring”.
Ms Palin will also have some formidable challengers from the progressive left, including Al Gross, a former orthopedic surgeon who ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2020, and Christopher Constant, an openly gay Democrat who is a member of the Anchorage Assembly. .
Ms Palin, who became one of only three women on a major party’s presidential ticket, has since tended to stay out of the national glare. But she raised concerns in New York in January when she dine out days after testing positive for the coronavirus.
In 2012, when several activists who helped Mr Trump get elected tried to persuade him to run against former President Barack Obama, she had passed away several times before running for the higher office.
