Republican Sullivan Defeats Alaska Democratic Senator Begich, AP Reports
Republicans have now picked up eight Senate seats in the 2014 midterm elections.
Dan Sullivan, commissioner of the Alaska Department of Natural Resources, speaks during a House Natural Resources Committee hearing on rare earths legislation in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Friday, June 3, 2011. Global demand for rare earths will increase at a rate of 8 percent a year from use of the minerals in computers and cars, the U.S. Geological Survey said during the hearing.
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Republican Dan Sullivan bested Democratic incumbent Mark Begich in Alaska's Senate race, picking up an eighth seat for the GOP in the 2014 midterm elections, the Associated Press reported Wednesday.
The race was too close to call on the night of the Nov. 4 election. Under Alaska law, elections workers had to wait a week before counting the 20,000 absentee ballots.