Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy was seated three seats from former President Donald Trump on Thursday evening at the Republican National Convention, in the first row of Trump’s designated box.
It’s a signal of the closeness in the relationship between the two political figures — a former and possibly future president and a second-term Republican Alaska governor. Dunleavy has been a strong supporter of Trump through thick and thin and was early to endorse him for president in 2023, after Trump announced his run. Dunleavy has said numerous times that Trump was the best president Alaska has ever had, when it comes to Alaska issues.
There would be dozens of other Republican governors or lawmakers who would jump at the chance to be three seats from the former president on the night when Trump is giving speech in which he will formally accept the nomination of the party.
Carmela Warfield, Alaska Republican Party chairwoman, said she snapped a couple of photos, one of Trump reaching over to shake Dunleavy’s hand. Then, Dunleavy turned and pointed straight at Warfield, who snapped another photo.
“Governor Dunleavy being seated in the President’s Box with President Trump, on the last night of our Republican National Convention, is a sign of great things to come for Alaska. There could not be a greater contrast between the Biden administration – which has levied more sanctions on Alaska than he has on the country of Iran – and what the future holds for Alaska with a united Republican Party under a Trump administration. Together, President Trump and Governor Dunleavy will make America energy dominant again. Let’s get to work!” said Warfield.
Rumors are swirling that Dunleavy will be tapped for a seat in the Trump cabinet, if Trump is elected president in November. Those rumors have been around for months, but are especially being discussed now, and the seating arrangement at the convention has fed further speculation about a possible position as Secretary of the Interior.
Looks like Trump learned nothing the first time around and is back to appointing spineless RINO’s ☹️
Of course PRESIDENT TRUMP knows a winner from a fake eh Lisa
Oath integrity how about Our Governor follow his oath Art III Sec. 16 enforcing As 39.05.050 & as 39.15.010 – 100 ? if you choose to respond to me first look up the statutes. Please!
Alaska potentially is the true vision of a “Power House” economy with natural resources that abound,
Minerals, forest, fish, and the most beautiful land to view. It can and should be developed in a responsible format, but developed it should be. Not locked up as the Democrats (All and any) desire.
Vote Trump and appoint Dunleavy as Interior Sec. Together and with a hoped for House and Senate controlled by Republicans (Not RINOs). making America Great Again is history in the making.
Trump and Dunleavy are talking, fantastic! Maybe this explains why the DNR Commissioner Vacated the Division of Oil and Gas Denial of our Greater Point Thomson Unit; it looks like Alaska is open for smaller oil and gas competitors and investors.
The fact that the last two DNR DOG Lease sales and offered over eight million acres and only 4,000 acres had a single bid by Hilcorp means the Monopoly is over in Alaska. Small investors will no longer be abused by unfair bureaucrats that ran free with its red tape and the Green scam.
The Feds seem to be stopping ConocoPhillips and Armstrong on the North Slope NPRA; almost everyone is looking at Guyana and Aruba.
Fairness and the Rule of law must come back to Alaska, and then we can drill up the Greater Point Thomson without unreasonableness and abuse!
Being a republican, I can honestly say the only thing Dunleavy is good for is to carry Biden’s lunch when Murkie is too busy carrying the bedpan. Dunleavy is a poor performer in this state and a Democrat from childhood posing as a Republican politician. It’ll be great when he is gone from the governor’s seat in Alaska.
It sounds promising for Dunleavy at Secretary of the Interior, but Republicans must win both the House and Senate in order for Trump to succeed, and they must hold both houses through the four year term, or the Demonrats will simply reverse all gains too early to realize the benefits. Trump only has ioe term, and we can expect the lawfare to continue.
That’s fine I’ll
Take the governor’s seat.
As long as Dunleavy supports Nancy Dahlstrom for Congress, I will oppose Dunleavy. I’m spearheading a letter writing campaign to Trump to let him know that Nancy Dahlstrom is no good and she can’t win.
NB3 is our man!
Agree!
We sent our letters about Dahlstrom too.
Many more to come.
Marla, don’t stop Dunleavy because of a lesser reason.
Let’s get him as step one——then focus on your reasons.
We need you too.
Agree with Marla on this. Dahlstrom is a curse to the Republican Party.
Thank you for sharing this — I kept looking for Dunleavy when I was watching. 🙂
Too bad DJT was with Palin and now Dunleavy has given us Dahlstrom.
I wish these 2 would get their heads out of their posteriors when it comes to our DC team.
ANC is Blue; will the State follow because no one is paying attention anymore?
This can only be good for Alaska. Trump has said several times in the media that he likes and is impressed with Dunleavy.
Thanks for posting this. Trump and Dunleavy apparently have been fairly close since Trump’s first time. Too bad the legislature is so uncooperative as far as things the governor wanted to get done. . As far as state processing is concerned, people should not have to move to Juneau. Instead do what companies with widely separated offices do. Develop a distributed processing scheme that concentrates on its areas, processing the local data there, then feeding their updated data to Juneau and then have Juneau do the final updating for the entire state. As for Dahstrom, there may be other issues at play. NB3 would be a better long term bet.
Sounds like it gets lost in beaurocracy.
Why not focus on the big one—-Donleavey.
Fix it from the top down.
The Trump admistration…
Preferred Employer of Lying Republican Grifters since 2016…. He will fit in great.
He will fit into the White House perfectly. Thanks for supporting Trump!!
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