Overview
- Axios reporting, echoed by multiple outlets, says Peltola is in the early stages of a campaign with a formal announcement expected later in January.
- The NRSC has already placed Alaska on its battleground map and prepared lines of attack as Sen. Dan Sullivan readies for a potential Peltola challenge.
- Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer has courted Peltola since 2025, with allied groups spending about $1.5 million last year to soften up Sullivan.
- Polling analyst Nate Silver says Peltola’s recruitment would shift Democrats’ odds in Alaska from long shot to plausible, while Sen. Lisa Murkowski called such a race very hard.
- Peltola won two statewide races in 2022 with help from ranked-choice transfers and Murkowski’s support, then lost her 2024 House reelection by just over two points, as Republicans currently hold the Senate 53–47.