Carly Fiorina on Tuesday became the eighth Republican presidential candidate to qualify for the state\u2019s presidential preference poll on March 1.<\/p>\n
The news was announced by email Tuesday from the Alaska Republican Party.<\/p>\n
Alaska awards its delegates to the national Republican convention proportionally, based upon the percentage of the vote each candidate receives. At the national Republican convention July 21 in Cleveland, Ohio, a candidate must receive a majority from 2,472 total delegates to become the party\u2019s nominee. Alaska has 25 delegates that will be bound by the results of the March 1 poll.<\/p>\n
According to a poll commissioned by the Alaska Dispatch News, 27.9 percent of registered Alaska Republican voters favor Donald Trump as the GOP choice for president. Ted Cruz was the No. 2 pick in the poll, with 23.8 percent of registered Republican respondents favoring the U.S. Senator from Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"