ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Alaska Lt. Gov. “At this time, the best thing I can do to see that goal realized is to withdraw my name from the general election ballot and end my campaign.” Peltola, Begich and Dahlstrom were the most prominent among a dozen candidates running for the seat in Alaska’s primary. “Mary was so proud to have received …
Mary Peltola, who won Alaska’s only House seat on Wednesday, started her race as an underdog. “Everybody seems to like Mary Peltola.” A June report from Alaska Public Media came to a similar conclusion: “If she’s pulled herself out of statewide obscurity, it’s likely due to her dominant personality trait: niceness.” In the second round of the special election, Peltola …
Below, DailyMail.com has compiled a list of 28 races that could shake up Congress on November 8: Swing races and toss-ups The races that could go either way with thin margins in the polls. New York-03: George Santos vs. Robert Zimmerman George Santos is a private equity executive who pledged in his Congressional campaign video to not take a salary …
After a multi-step, special election that began in June, Alaska will send Democrat Mary Peltola to Congress to finish out the term of the long-serving Republican Don Young, who died in March. Peltola bested two Republicans—former Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Nick Begich, a businessman and political advocate—to win the state’s single House seat in the ranked-choice race. In a …