Alaska Senate Race Complicated by Peltola's Campaign Shake-Up and DeSantis' Dominance
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But Peltola’s campaign shake-up is not the only complication dogging Alaska’s Senate race: incumbent Sen. Sullivan will be joined on the ballot by another candidate named Dan Sullivan — a retired 5th grade teacher who describes himself as a “pragmatic Republican.”
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Washington TimesIn Alaska’s primary system, the top four candidates advance to the general election, regardless of party affiliation. This could create a confusing situation — and an edge for Ms. Peltola — if two Republicans named Dan Sullivans are on the November ballot.
The Guardian USBut the incumbent senator’s real threat, Alaska politics watchers say, is Mary Peltola, a Democrat who managed to twice win election to the state’s seat in the US House of Representatives, and is now vying tobeat him in November’s midterm elections in the US Senate. The Tuesday vote in the nonpartisan primary will see four candidates advance to the general election for the seat in November.
ABC NewsRepublican Dan J. Sullivan is challenging GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan. President Donald Trump is weighing in on the unusual Republican primary in Alaska, where a challenger with the same name as sitting senator Dan Sullivan is on the ballot, sparking confusion and accusations of "trickery" by Democrats in the race for the crucial seat.
PBS NewsHourLive Results: Alaska midterm primaries Alaska voters will narrow down a long list of contenders Tuesday for a competitive U.S. Senate seat that's expected to play a pivotal role in determining which party will hold a majority in the chamber next year.
New York TimesMary Peltola Shakes Up Campaign Staff Days Before Alaska’s Senate Primary Ms. Peltola, the Democratic Senate candidate, fired a longtime senior aide and named a new campaign manager.
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DeSantis was then expected to endorse his own lieutenant governor, Collins, whom he had elevated to that role from the state Senate after his original running mate left last year to take a job running Florida International University. Instead, though, the governor has declined to endorse at all ahead of the primary, although he did recently praise Renner, who, if polling is correct, is unlikely to break single digits on Tuesday.
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Washington ExaminerCollins has focused his campaign attacks against Donalds on social media, suggesting the front-runner won’t put Florida residents first if he’s elected as the state’s next governor. The lieutenant governor has not been endorsed by DeSantis, even though the two work together.
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Donalds is outpacing each of his opponents — Lt. Gov. Jay Collins (R-FL), businessman James Fishback, and former Florida House Speaker Paul Renner — by double digits. Donalds is endorsed by President Donald Trump, whose support will surely boost the Republican front-runner’s chances of winning in the red state.
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HuffPostNow 47 and completing his third term in Congress after a career as a financial adviser, Donalds has consistently led in polls of the Republican primary since he began his campaign a year ago, thanks to Trump’s early endorsement, and is favored to defeat Lt. Gov. Jay Collins, former House Speaker Paul Renner, and antisemitic racist James Fishback, who in a January social media post wrote about Donalds: “By’rone wants to turn Florida into a Section 8 ghetto.”
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Tuesday’s primary election is also likely to mark the beginning of the end of the Ron DeSantis era in Florida politics. The governor, who barely won his election in 2018 but then made a national name for himself by loudly attacking COVID restrictions and “woke” policies, will leave office without a successor committed to his legacy or an obvious career move.
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PBS NewsHourLive Results: Florida midterm primaries Florida voters will select nominees Tuesday to replace term-limited Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis and to complete the remainder of Secretary of State Marco Rubio's unexpired U.S. Senate term.
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“I have every right to stand up and do this,” he told the Petersburg Pilot, an Alaska newspaper, in June, noting that his father and grandfather shared the name.
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ABC News"I have every right to stand up and do this," Dan J. Sullivan said in an interview with the Petersburg Pilot newspaper earlier this summer. "It's my name, my grandfather's name: Dan Sullivan. My dad's name: Dan Sullivan."
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01 USA Today Florida governor candidates address voters ahead of primary election - USA Today Florida governor candidates address voters ahead of primary election USA Today
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02 New York Times Florida Race to Replace Byron Donalds Features Candidates Who Have Already Run for Congress We look at the crowded race to replace Byron Donalds.
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03 Associated Press The Associated Press first tabulated vote counts in U.S. elections in 1848 and today gathers election results from local election officials in thousands of races nationwide. Results are reported as soon as they are available. AP’s Elections Analytics team declares winners when certain the trailing candidates no longer have a path to victory.
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04 Washington Examiner DeSantis, however, has been critical of Donalds in the past. “You’ve got a guy like Byron, he just hasn’t been a part of any of the victories that we’ve had here over the Left over these last few years,” DeSantis said at a press conference in February 2025, around the time Donalds launched his campaign for governor. “He’s just not been a part of it. He’s been in other states campaigning doing that and that’s fine, but OK, then deliver results up there.”
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05 PBS NewsHour Live Results: Wyoming midterm primaries Wyoming voters will choose nominees for an unusually high number of open-seat races in a state primary Tuesday, thanks to two prominent Republican officials whose retirement announcements set off a scramble for contests throughout the ballot.
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06 ABC News The Alaska Democratic Party and Peltola's campaign told ABC News they have no involvement or affiliation with either Dan Sullivan.
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07 Washington Times If they both advance to the general election, the two Sullivans could potentially split the Republican vote in what is already a hotly contested Senate race.
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08 The Guardian US While Alaska has only once voted for a Democrat in a presidential election – Lyndon B Johnson, in 1964 – power has oscillated between the two parties at the state level, and bipartisan coalitions today control both the state house and senate. Independents make up two-thirds of registered voters and Republicans about 23%, while fewer than 12% of Alaskans are Democrats.
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09 The Daily Wire Peltola, according to several reports, will be going into Tuesday’s primary without her campaign manager, Anton McParland — who has been with Peltola since 2022 and previously served as her chief of staff.
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10 HuffPost TALLAHASSEE, Fla. ― Eight years after nearly making the Democratic mayor of Tallahassee the state’s first-ever Black governor, Florida voters are on the cusp of doing it again, only this time with a Naples congressman who rose to prominence by defending the most openly racist president in a century.
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