According to Axios, Mary Peltola has been interviewing potential campaign managers in preparation to challenge Senator Dan Sullivan for his seat in the U.S. Senate in this year’s general election.
In 2022, Mary Peltola was elected to the 117th Congress to fill the vacancy left by the death of Representative Donald Edwin Young. She was re-elected to serve a full term in the 118th Congress but lost her bid for re-election in 2024. Readers can find her full voting record here.
Alaskan Republicans express general disdain for Peltola. The Alaska GOP keeps a “Peltola Files” tab on their official website to inform Alaskans about ways Peltola failed in Congress. According to the Alaska GOP, some of Peltola’s failures include ignoring President Biden’s mental decline, voting against common-sense border security, voting to reduce penalties for violent crime, failing to show up for various meetings and votes, and promoting transgender ideology.
On the other hand, Alaskan Democrats favor Peltola with some even expressing desire for her to run for governor. Peltola’s earlier campaign for Congress shows her political priorities, which largely align with Democrat values: advocating for Alaskan Natives, supporting universal Pre-K and expanded childcare access, backing unions, fighting high food costs and inflation, investing in infrastructure to connect Alaskan rural communities, protecting social security benefits, expanding abortion access, prioritizing environmental protections, lowering healthcare cost and expanding Medicaid, advocating for LGBTQ+ rights, reviving Native language instruction in schools, advocating for higher teacher pay and higher funding for student retention, and advocating for expanded government programs for Veterans.
Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has received much criticism from Alaskan Republicans for her tendency to side with Democrats, including her public support of Peltola. In an interview with the Alaska Beacon, Murkowski offered her opinion of Peltola potentially running for Senate: “If she were to run against my colleague, yeah: It puts me in a difficult spot. But I also think it puts a lot of Alaskans in a difficult spot. Mary, not unlike me, is able to attract support from both sides, right? And granted, it’s early right now. But my sense is that Dan is doing a pretty good job of shoring up this support from not only traditional Republican voters and donors, but from many who kind of view themselves more independently.”
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is pressing Peltola to take on the challenge. Dedicated to unseating Sullivan, Schumer backed a $600,000 ad campaign smearing Senator Sullivan. Although Peltola has not officially announced her intention to run, it is expected she will do so before the end of the month.
Well, that should secure Sullivan’s reelection.
Never assume anything when it comes to Alaska voters. A lot of beach rocks out there.
A lot of electronic vote tabulation machines out there.
RCV is out there.
Almost unlimited early and mail in voting is out there.
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If the ballot process was even remotely secure, the voter turn out will rise. So, yeah. Agree, and I will not assume anything.
Good God, spare us please!
Maybe she should run for higher office with AOC? The jokes could write themselves. It would be epic.
Mary Peltola is a box checker and her campaign is run on the same old tired narrative of lies. Half the stuff she advocates for is ripe for fraud. We only need to look at Minnesota.
What about a chicken in every pot? Or, for Alaska, every chicken gets free pot? I don’t think the Minnesotafication of Alaska will fly.
The life long 74 year old bush Alaskan knows one thing she excels at, “incompetence “.
Can’t Mary get a real job? Must she perpetually run for office as a career? Alaska’s Beto O’Rourke?
Beto Peltola? I hereby copyright that term, anybody who uses it, you owe me a nickel!
I’m using it. I’ll owe you the nickle when I see you.
What did she do as a representative? Nick Begich is doing so much more and good for the Alaskan people. So has Senator Dan Sullivan. Identity politics at play by the Democrats.
Investing in infrastructure to connect Alaskan rural communities, like what though? Rail roads? Hovercrafts might be a good alternative to transport freight from the hubs to the villages, but they use a lot of fuel too. Doing that might also just raise the cost of airline tickets from the hubs to the villages.
Far eastern Russia always get fresh vegetables in their local stores. They get everything flown in too.
Go Dan go.
Schumer funding a schmear campaign?! Say it isn’t so!
He can’t even cook a cheeseburger 🍔…. What a putz!
I get the tongue in cheek comment, but that’s why we lose. Every body thinking it’s a sure thing and blowing off voting. Every election, conservatives need to vote like their lives depend on it, because it absolutely does.
That’s right, our Lt. Governor did absolutely nothing about our election flaws, and now she wants to be Governor.
Let her embarrass herself. I’ll pop some popcorn and clean my 3D glasses! This should be good entertainment!!!
Her supposedly backing the oil development bill while secretly slipping a note to her colleagues in the house should be the icing on the cake for exposing her deceptive practices. Then look at her bill record. Nuff said.
There is a reserved room for Mary at API and another one for Lisa her good buddy!
Since she couldn’t find husband #6 in the US House, she might as well try the US Senate. Older stock in the Senate, but Peltola is only after the money. She learned her lesson with my nephew. My old seat is safe with Dan. And my dumb brother told her to find another race to compete in. Looks like our family got rid of her. She can squaw.k somewhere else.
“Ignoring Biden’s mental decline”. Like hell!
She surrounds herself with those in mental decline. Politicians like her thrive in a sea of low IQ voters. How else do you think they make a career out of politics? Dumb people can’t do for themselves so you have the Mary Peltolas of the world swooping in to save (exploit) them for their votes. Then they get all this popularity from virtue signaling to the dumb dumbs and taking all our hard earned money and laundering back to themselves while fooling the dummy masses into believing they are sticking it to the man when in fact they are leeching off the hard work of those who supply all the hard labor to their tax coffers.
Our system needs an enema.
Rigged Choice Voting does wonders for Peltola. This is going to be interesting if she runs and going to be a very sad day for Alaska if she wins.
Someone should ask Lisa who she is endorsing.
Just say No to Mary Peltola! She is the face of the left. Last thing we need in office is someone who cannot identify what a “woman” is! Nuff said!
I’m just glad she isn’t running for governor. But glad to have her as Lt. Governor running mate.
I’d love to have her squaw.kking next to me.
The bear doctor would be a much better pick.
It’s a clown world where brainless idiots can steal elections and ruin people’s lives. Peltola and AOC, 2 peas in a pod. Unfortunately for them our election system will be secured this time, and they will not be able to add the necessary votes to steal it!
Hope she brings her crayons and coloring book.
The adults have work to do.
Cancel that order to bring in the clowns. She’s here!!!! Now all we have to do is see who she brings with her.
With all the money the NGO’s funneled into the Democrats ( and some Republicans ) that’s now all dried up . It’s going to be a hard win for her . She’s better off cutting bait and consulting in DC ! AK49
What is she thinking!! Peltola was so ineffective as a congresswoman and lost her reelection to Begich. What on earth makes her think she is fit to be a U.S. Senator? I believe this is what is called the Peter Principle.
Peltola? Thinking?
Shirley you jest!
She’s an epic lightweight with no compass and no sense of direction. Yet, everyone in rural Alaska will vote for her as she snickers from her home in Anchorage. Fool us once, shame on you. Fool us twice, shame on us.
I’m sure Sullivan is happy hearing this. He was sweating bullets that the Dems would find a viable candidate, but instead, they pulled defeat from the jaws of victory by running a failed retread!
It has been a few days, and I have noticed one interesting thing.
While the leftists on MRAK are always ready, willing, and able to post comments either praising the democrats, or reviling the Republicans, none of them are here.
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Not a single positive, supportive comment from the left. The silence speaks volumes.
The love thy neighbor christian hypocrisy is thick here.
Odd post considering there was not one single reference to religion or religious concept in any of the posts above. Do you think that everyone who loves their neighbor needs to be a Mary Peltola cheerleader? Perhaps your hatred of religion, or Christians in particular, is clouding your ability to present a cogent point?
Her previous performance dooms her. But let’s face it: Duplicitous Dan is a weak sister who could easily be deposed by a strong, principled candidate. But who would that be?? For that reason, my bet is we will have him around for another term.
Lisa said,”But my sense is that Dan is doing a pretty good job of shoring up this support from not only traditional Republican voters and donors, but from many who kind of view themselves more independently.” If senator Dan takes this advice to be a fence sitter, it will be his downfall! You’re both already on the rino list on X. Be careful from whom u take advice!
I tend to lean more conservative but I support advocating for Alaska natives; universal pre-K; fighting high food costs and inflation; lowering healthcare costs (but not expanding Medicaid); advocating for higher teacher pay (but not extra dollars for student retention) and advocating for govt programs for veterans (not necessarily expanded programs but to make the existing programs better). How to do this, I don’t know. However if she wants our votes, she better have a plan and be able to articulate that to the voters.
If you support all of those things, you do not lean conservative at all.
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Every single one of the things you mention are ways to increase the power of the government at the expense of personal liberty and quality of life. And, every single one of those things (History is abundantly clear on this front) always end up with the government taking taxpayer dollars from the people earning them and giving those dollars away to the people who do not. (I believe that is akin to slavery)
Not enough Evangelical Lutherans to get her elected up here.
Chuck Schumer isn’t concerned if Mary doesn’t show up for work, but he is worried that Dan does. Mary missed **40%** of her votes, one of the highest rates in the House, while Dan has only missed **2.9%**, one of the lowest numbers in the Senate. If you or I missed **40%** of our work, we wouldn’t be surprised if our boss fired us. Interestingly, Mary’s actual boss—the Alaskan people, not Chuck Schumer—did fire her. So why is Chuck trying to bring back “no-show” Mary? It’s no wonder Chuck is aligned with a party that struggles to get things done.
Well Sullivan is better than a deamocrat, by a small margin.