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Norm Coleman to Joe Miller: Give Up Already

Alaska candidate should realize it's time to quit, former senator says

By Rob Quinn, Newser Staff

Posted Nov 25, 2010 2:36 AM CST

(Newser) – Norm Coleman knows a thing or two about fighting close elections, and he has a message for Joe Miller: Give up. "I think that race is over. I think the counting’s been done. I’m not sure there’s anything that would change that," the former Minnesota senator and fellow Republican—who lost his seat to Al Franken after a 7-month battle—told C-SPAN in an interview that will air this weekend.

"I think at a certain point in time, you have to have some finality to these things. It should be time to move on," Coleman said. There's not much that you can gain by extending the process." Alaska's GOP has declared Lisa Murkowski the winner, but Miller has filed a lawsuit challenging the result and demanding a recount of write-in ballots. The National Republican Senatorial Committee says it's not going to comment on the race until the results are “official," Politico notes.

Joe Miller is behind Lisa Murkowski by about 10,300 votes, including about 8,100 that his campaign has challenged. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Former Minnesota Sen. Norm Coleman addresses the media in St. Paul, Minn (AP Photo/Jim Mone, FILE)

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falling321

Nov 25, 2010 11:39 PM CST

So Coleman thinks Miller should do as he says, not as he did? Coleman is just another establishment Republican who is in shock that so many anti-establishment Republican's are now in office...which lowers his chance of winning should he challenge that idiot Franken in a couple years. I truly do not understand why Americans of BOTH parties keep electing the same old fools over and over, decade after decade and then whine because nothing changes! Coleman AND Murkowski need to go! Good luck Miller!

Doctor-Zaius

Nov 25, 2010 10:34 AM CST

Republicans eating their own. I love it.

ss26mar

Nov 25, 2010 9:32 AM CST

those of you who are advocating miller to concede are ignoring the facts that a recount will also give votes to miller, that the write in did not adhere to the law and the use of bloated voter rolls, voter intimidation and voter fraud has given the appreance of a murkowski win. but AP does not decide elections only the state government. let it play out before making assumptions on who has won. just ask al franken how he got the prisoners/felons to vote to make him a senator.

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