Scramble for the Senate: Mary Peltola is running a strong, winnable campaign against Dan Sullivan in Alaska [View all]

Alaska is a great distance from the District of Columbia, but it is close to the center of the Democratic Party’s plan to reclaim control of the U.S. Senate. They need to flip just four positions and are targeting the seat held by Republican Dan Sullivan.

The 49th State has long been Republican territory, but its voters have displayed a quirky independent, libertarian streak. They have twice defied Trump to reelect Sullivan’s colleague Lisa Murkowski, who maddeningly alternates between enabling Trump and defying him. Sullivan operates in the shadow of his seatmate.

Alaska is potentially low hanging fruit in a high stakes, high expense battle. Television time is relatively cheap. The state has opted for ranked choice voting, in which the top four vote getters in the first round face off in November. A recent survey by Public Policy Polling of North Carolina (which NPI has worked with for many years) showed Sullivan trailing Democratic challenger Mary Peltola by two points.

Meanwhile, local pollster Alaska Survey Research has Peltola up by five points.

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