In her latest email request for funds from her supporters, Rep. Mary Peltola for the first time admitted that she is losing her race for reelection to Congress.
“I hate coming to you with bad news, but with just 14 days until the election, I have no choice. A new poll shows me losing to my extremist opponent, Nick Begich,” Peltola wrote on Tuesday. She showed an image that has her with 40% support and Nick Begich with 44% support, and she stated that 16% are undecided.
“I’m not going to sugarcoat this: It looks like the millions that Mike Johnson and his super PAC are pouring into Alaska to lie about me and my record are working,” Peltola said, lying once again to voters. She has ten times the campaign treasury that Begich has.
“But here’s the good news: This poll shows that 16% of voters are still undecided. So this race will be won by whoever gets to those undecided voters first!
Then she asks people to donate $10 to $50.
“… my campaign team and I are reaching Alaskans by foot, by mail, by TV, and phone. But to reach every undecided voter and win, I need you to fuel our campaign in these last 14 days. So please, will you split $25 between the Alaska Democratic Party and my campaign to help me win over undecided voters and defy the odds once again in November?,” Peltola’s campaign writes in an email coordinated with the Democratic Party.
Peltola must have her own secret polling, because what she is telling Alaskans in this email does not add up to the polls published in September and October by the National Republican Congressional Committee. Her numbers are off. Only 10% are undecided.
Peltola is either not being honest with voters or has her own polling data that she is not detailing.
All fall, Peltola has been spending money on “feasts” that she has been holding around the state with her supporters, and earlier this fall she had a “FREE BEER!” sign on the window of her campaign headquarters in Fairbanks.
At the end of the third quarter, Peltola had over $3.3 million cash on hand, compared to Nick Begich, who had $440,700 in his campaign account.
