Mary Peltola made a mistake. But her Republican opponent would be a disaster for Alaska | Kim Heacox

Trump and Senator Dan Sullivan have put my home state on the chopping block. But Peltola understands Alaskans Donald Trump’s trip to Alaska earlier this month was a real doozy. Should I be surprised? The previous time he visited my home state, in August 2025, he ordered the US military to roll out a red carpet for Russia’s Vladimir Putin. The two billionaire oligarchs chummed it up and posed for cameras, then talked about the war in Ukraine and achieved no formal ceasefire and no peace agreement.

I was curious to see what Trump would do this time. If our economy is so good, as he says it is, and if Republicans are so superior to Democrats, as he says they are, then why fly 3,400 miles to hold a rally for Dan Sullivan, Alaska’s junior Republican senator running for his third term? Sullivan is in a tight race with his Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola. That’s why. Control of the US Senate for the next two years could come down to