Democrats just got a boost in their effort to reclaim control of the Senate. Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola is jumping into Alaska’s Senate race against Republican incumbent.
Democrats just got a boost in their effort to reclaim control of the Senate. Democratic former Rep. Mary Peltola is jumping into Alaska’s Senate race against Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan. Her entry gives Democrats a faint but real opening in one of the nation’s reddest corners of the map, the Wall Street Journal reports. Peltola, 52, announced Monday that she will run on a message of putting Alaska’s priorities first.
National Democrats had aggressively courted her as they look beyond traditional swing states and hunt for long-shot pickups in places like Alaska, Iowa, and Ohio. Republicans hold the Senate 53–47, and Democrats would need to net at least four seats while defending vulnerable incumbents in states such as Georgia and Michigan.
