The Senate Majority PAC announced an initial $10.6 million television ad spend in Alaska to support Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign against incumbent Dan Sullivan.
The Senate Majority PAC’s website states that the organization is “solely dedicated to building a Democratic majority in the U.S. Senate.”
Mary Peltola was elected in 2022 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.
Her current Senate campaign identifies only two priorities: “Affordability” and “Fixing the Rigged System.” The priorities and values laid out in her previous campaign for House of Representatives do not appear on her current campaign site.
Peltola’s earlier campaign for Congress listed a plethora of political priorities: 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.
According to a press release from the Senate Majority PAC, the money will be spent on emphasizing Sullivan’s support of Trump’s tariffs and cutting of Medicaid funds.
“Dan Sullivan had his chance to make life affordable for Alaskans, but instead decided to put Donald Trump’s agenda first,” said Senate Majority PAC Spokesperson Lauren French. “Peltola is putting Alaska first – focusing on protecting its families’ way of life and freedoms. That’s the kind of senator Alaskans deserve.”
According to the Alaska GOP’s “Peltola Files,” Peltola failed during her prior service in Congress by 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, Sullivan has focused on driving Alaska’s economy and resource development forward. For example, Sullivan backed the joint resolution, now passed into law, that “prevents BLM from implementing sweeping and permanent restrictions on access, development, and infrastructure across more than 13 million acres of public land in Alaska within the 56-million-acre planning area (a land mass nearly the size of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania combined).”
Sullivan has also worked to cut taxes, increase military strength in Alaska, push forward Alaska LNG, and invest in Alaska’s infrastructure.
