Alaska Senate Race Between Dan Sullivan and Mary Peltola Still Counting Votes
The race between Senator Dan S. Sullivan and Ms. Peltola, a former congresswoman, is the only Senate contest that hasn’t been called. More
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A Democrat Wins the Alaska Governor’s Race for the First Time Since 1998
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‘It’s the disregard for the rule of law. It just seems like they’re thumbing their nose at it’US midterms 2026 live – latest updatesTrack live results from all 50 statesIn the battleground state of Maine, Todd Cox, 63, has supported the state’s incumbent Republican senator Susan Collins not once, but twice, in previous elections. Not this time.On Tuesday, Cox, a technology professional, cast his vote for Collins’s Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson – driven not by pressing local issues, but broader concern “for the direction the country is going in”, he said. Continue reading… More
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Spoiler candidates are nothing new in US politics. It’s clear why Trump is targeting Peltola | Petala Ironcloud
Republicans are focused on a race that could flip the Senate – and where an Alaska Native is favoredDays before Alaskans get to vote, the federal government is already trying to overturn the result.Last week, at Donald Trump’s behest, the justice department sued to block the certification of Alaska’s US Senate race, if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses; a judge dismissed that suit on Sunday, though the administration said it planned to appeal. On Wednesday, Trump demanded that Mary Peltola, the Alaska Native Democrat whom polls favor to win, be removed from the ballot and prosecuted. Piling on, Alaska’s Republican governor has since ordered an investigation into Peltola’s campaign. Continue reading… More
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Democrats Show Strength in Final Days of Race for the Senate, New Polls Find
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Democrats Are Leading or Tied in 7 Battleground Governor’s Races, Polls Find
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Judge dismisses Trump attempt to block Alaska Senate race results if Republican loses
Incumbent Dan Sullivan says he will accept election results after ‘unprecedented intervention’ by Trump’s DoJA judge has dismissed the Donald Trump-backed lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s US Senate race if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses.Trump said on 23 October that he had ordered the justice department to file the lawsuit in a move that voting rights experts called an “unprecedented intervention” by the federal government with control of Congress in the balance. Continue reading… More
