In a significant phase of the U.S. election campaign, results of the Alaska Senate primary are being announced. According to preliminary data, Democrat Mary Peltola and incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan are leading their respective parties, as reported by infohub.kz.
With 66% of votes counted in Alaska, Peltola leads with 46.8% of the vote, closely followed by incumbent Sullivan with 44.4%. In third place is Dan J. Sullivan with 2.4%. This is a non-partisan primary, so four candidates will advance to the general election in November.
Mary Peltola became the first Alaska Native and the first woman to represent Alaska in the House of Representatives when she won the state's sole seat in 2022. Dan Sullivan is seeking a third term. His opponent is the namesake Dan J. Sullivan, a retired schoolteacher and U.S. Forest Service employee. Republicans argued that his candidacy was an interference tactic, but the state supreme court ruled in June that he was qualified to run.
In other primary results, in California, progressive Aisha Wahab leads with 51% in the special runoff election, after super PACs tied to AIPAC spent millions supporting her opponent Melissa Hernandez. In Wyoming, Trump-backed Harriet Hageman leads the Republican Senate primary. In Florida, Byron Donalds won the Republican nomination and David Jolly the Democratic nomination for governor. Donalds would become the state's first Black governor if elected.
In Florida's Senate primary, progressive Angie Nixon won the Democratic nomination, defeating Alexander Vindman. She will face Republican Ashley Moody in November for the seat Marco Rubio won in 2022.
In Alaska's gubernatorial primary, Democrats Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins and Tom Begich are leading, with three Republicans trailing. In the race for Alaska's House seat, Republican Nick Begich III is leading with 46.2% of the vote.
Additionally, the Department of Justice has launched an investigation into whether Dan J. Sullivan entered the primary to confuse voters, as part of the Trump administration's investigations into political adversaries.


