Joe Miller Can't Congratulate Murkowski - He Doesn't Have Her Number

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Channel: SuchIsLifeVideos · 2011 · News & Politics

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Republican Joe Miller is ending his fight over Alaska's U.S. Senate seat, conceding the race to his bitter rival, incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski. Miller's decision, announced Friday at a news conference in Anchorage, comes one day after the state certified Murkowski as the winner. He had the option of appealing a federal judge's ruling or lodging a formal contest to the election results. While he said he believes he is right about the law, he said it was "very unlikely" an appeals court would side with him and that he had to accept "practical realities."

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