Former Alaska representative Mary Peltola announced on Monday she is running for Alaska’s US Senate seat, handing Democrats a major recruitment victory as the party battles to reclaim the chamber’s majority in this year’s midterm elections.
Peltola, who served as Alaska’s sole House member from 2022 until her narrow defeat in 2024, is considered one of the few Democrats in the Republican-leaning state capable of mounting a serious challenge to Senator Dan Sullivan, who is seeking re-election.
