The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar.
Leading Off
●AK-Sen: Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski got her first notable intra-party challenger on Monday when Kelly Tshibaka announced that she was resigning as commissioner of the Alaska Department of Administration to run here. Tshibaka made it very clear in her kickoff video that she'd be portraying Murkowski, who was appointed to the Senate in 2002, as a political insider who is "so out of touch that she even voted to remove Donald Trump from office even after he was already gone." Tshibaka also falsely claimed that Murkowski, who said she cast a write-in vote in the 2020 presidential race, actually "supported Joe Biden for president."