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Former President Donald Trump spoke for more than 90 minutes at a rally in Anchorage on Saturday to support Republican U.S. House candidate Sarah Palin and U.S. Senate candidate Kelly Tshibaka.

“I’m here for two reasons: to support great candidates and to fulfill my promise to Alaska,” Trump said, referring to his vow to campaign against incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who voted to impeach him and is running for reelection this year.

Trump took the stage at the Alaska Airlines Center around 4:30 p.m., remarked on what a special place Alaska is — “I’ve heard for years there’s no place more beautiful and I agree” — then launched into attacks against Murkowski. But most of his long speech was dedicated to bashing Democrats and glorifying his time as president.

He called Tshibaka, who is challenging Murkowski, “wonderful” and former Gov. Palin “legendary.” He called Murkowski “worse than a RINO,” referring to so-called Republicans in name only.

Trump also spoke in praise of Gov. Mike Dunleavy, who is running for reelection, calling him “terrific.” But Dunleavy was not in attendance and did not meet with Trump during his brief visit to Alaska, Dunleavy campaign spokesman Andrew Jensen said. Trump has said he would endorse Dunleavy as long as Dunleavy doesn’t support Murkowski.

In his lengthy remarks, Trump celebrated recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions including the one that overturned abortion protections guaranteed in Roe v. Wade; attacked Democratic President Joe...

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