A major battle is brewing in Alaska between grass-roots conservatives and the national Republican establishment after a GOP committee sent its top legal gun to help incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski win her absentee-ballot clash with Fairbanks attorney Joe Miller.
Miller leads Murkowski in the GOP Senate primary race by a razor-thin 1,668 votes.
The struggle escalated Thursday when the National Republican Senatorial Committee ordered its chief counsel to Anchorage to help Murkowski during the absentee-balloting process.
"We're up against a machine," Miller told Fox News, adding, "It concerns us anytime that somebody lawyers up and tries to pull an Al Franken, if you will."
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