Nick Morris said about Mary Peltola, in Elections Daily on October 30, 2026.
Reviewing the Alaska Senate race in a final battleground overview.
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Mary Peltola
Things People Say About Mary Peltola
Mary Peltola represented Alaska in the U.S. House from 2022 to 2025 and lost her seat narrowly in 2024. She was the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Alaska in 2026.
What People Say About Them
Matt Lewis said about Mary Peltola, in Matt Lewis & the News(letter) on October 30, 2026.
Arguing that moderate Democrats are the story of the 2026 midterms.
Stu Burguiere said about Mary Peltola, in Predictable with Stu Burguiere on September 17, 2026.
Conservative commentator Stu Burguiere placed Alaska in the "lean Democrat" column in his Senate "gut check" on Predictable with Stu in mid-September 2026.
Predictable with Stu Burguiere
Around 00:00 into the episode
Speaker
…I think right now. Uh, so there's gotta be two surprises in there for most people. Alaska. New Hampshire and Ohio. Now, I kind of, when I entered this exercise thought I would have, uh, I might have put a bunch of these into the the tossup area. I, I don't have them in the tossup area. I have them leaning Democrat and let me talk to you about why. Alaska first off is the weirdest one. Alaska got the best possible candidate, which is Mary Peltola. She was a former congressman, but Alaska really likes her. Um, and so she's the Democrat in that race. Sullivan, the Republican in that race, you know, he's a somewhat normal regular Republican but just doesn't have great approval ratings. He's suffering from the climate here, and I think Peltola is in a normal race would be. I would, you know, maybe in the tossup, but a little bit, maybe even leaning D, but this could be a tossup…
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.
Dan Sullivan said about Mary Peltola, in The Sean Hannity Show on September 9, 2026.
Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan, Peltola's opponent, criticized her House voting record in an interview on The Sean Hannity Show in early September 2026.
The Sean Hannity Show
Around 10:05 into the episode
Speaker 5
Left hundred-percent lower forty eight liberals as i mentioned.
Speaker 1
The death by the way i'd love alaskans referred to lower forty eight where we're an entity hunt for ourselves leave us.
Speaker 5
…Started going up with attack ads against me in June of 2025. June of 2025. We've been taking incoming, Sean, for well over a year. And it's all funded from lower 48 liberals. There was just a big piece about how well over a million dollars into her campaign is from some of the most radical anti-oil and gas entities in America. the country, and yet she says she's for oil and gas. The fact is I had a debate with her in front of our Alaska Oil and Gas Association two weeks ago and laid out all her votes, her votes when she was in the House that were anti-Alaska energy, anti-Alaska oil and gas. And as you know, that's the heart and soul of our economy here. She even had a bill called the Alaska Right to Produce Act when the lower 48 liberal Democrats in the House said, we hate your bill. she ended up voting against her own bill and lobbying liberal Democrats in the House to vote against Alaska oil and gas. I mean, you can't make this stuff up. So we can't let her run as a, you know, middle of the road, or she's a far left. She's got a record…
Speaker 1
I just want to urge our friends in Alaska, And we are all over the state of Alaska.
Speaker 2
People can hear this show.
Speaker 1
And for those of you listening, I want you all to really understand what's at stake here. Because if these radicals win, it's everything I've been warning you about. Without being a broken record, they want to eliminate the Senate, your ability to pick a president, pack the courts. More and more…
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.
Where to Find Them
Mary Peltola writes Mary Peltola . They have also been a guest on The Bulwark Podcast , The MeidasTouch Podcast and The Bulwark .
Recently: “Trump Gets Awful News as Opposition Grows in Alaska (with Mary Peltola)” on The MeidasTouch Podcast (October 2026); “Sam Stein and Mary Peltola: Cozying Up to Commies and Corporate Elites” on The Bulwark Podcast (September 2026); “Sam Stein and Mary Peltola: Cozying Up to Commies and Corporate Elites” on The Bulwark (September 2026); “This is thanks to you” on Mary Peltola (July 2026); “Lower 48ers may not understand” on Mary Peltola (July 2026); “Ikayuquluta” on Mary Peltola (July 2026).
What They Said
Peltola closed her interview with Tim Miller on The Bulwark Daily, September 24, 2026, by describing the state of the Alaska Senate race and asking for campaign donations.
The Bulwark
Mary Peltola
You know, I'm not focused on the composition right now. There's, you know, and it's so funny because we live in an unprecedented time and it's been an unprecedented time for a very long time. So I think. I'm sick of
Tim Miller
talking about how unprecedented it is, to be honest.
Mary Peltola
I am too. I would love to live in precedented times. I would love to have boring government. I'd love to have boring leaders who weren't doing outlandish things every day. Knowing how the zone is going to be flooded. But if I am so fortunate to win, and this is not in the bag, I don't have any thoughts that I'm a shoe-in or anything like that. This really is a toss-up. This is a dead heat. And it's really going to take all of us to win this race. So please go to marypaltola.com to chip in. We need to raise a lot of money to get out face to face in front of Alaskans. But this isn't a sure thing. So
Tim Miller
we've got the email pitch, but what about the vote for Schumer?
Mary Peltola
You know, I am not interested in caucus dynamics. And again, I have no way of knowing what the dynamics will be at that point. And I just, I hate to make big predictions.
Tim Miller
I mean, the filibuster question is, I just think it might be so far away because you're talking about 2029, but like in the Senate, you know, for the Democrats to be able to do things, and that has been a pretty big controversy among Democrats. I don't know, even when you were there in the House. I…
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.
Peltola described the core of her case to Alaska voters in her interview with Tim Miller on The Bulwark Daily, September 24, 2026.
The Bulwark
Mary Peltola
…coming in and making dramatic changes. And then in two years, another majority comes in and flips it again. I think the level of uncertainty that we are all living in currently is only exacerbated when we have a Congress that's just, you know, got these political footballs going back and forth.
Tim Miller
…with people that broke the law, broke rules, et cetera. And I'm just kind of wondering how you think about that. Like, obviously, there'll be a policy agenda for the Democrats, but shouldn't there not also be a corruption and accountability agenda, given what we've seen the last couple of years?
Mary Peltola
I think everyone across Alaska is feeling the weight of the corruption in Washington, D.C. and the corporate greed that has been allowed to happen really unfettered. If you look at every single thing we're paying for, we are getting crushed by these runaway prices, whether it's diesel or gas, transportation costs, freight costs, health care costs, grocery costs, even the issue with factory trawlers, you know, dragging the bottom of the Bering Sea. That's a corporate greed issue. And our government was designed, first of all, to have three different branches and a balance of power. And it was also designed to be reflective of the electorate. And right now we have a House and a Senate that's half millionaires and billionaires. This is not a mirror of America. And I think that their agenda is very different than the average household agenda. And we all know financially, we are going backwards every month. And there is a direct tie with corporate greed and these millionaire and billionaire agendas that really are. We're on board for oversight
Tim Miller
of whatever kind of greed, whatever scandals we've seen people doing deals with this administration that are not legal or fair. They're
Mary Peltola
baked into our democracy. And we've been ignoring that. And we have a Congress that acts like they don't have the power of the purse. We have a Supreme Court that really kowtows. And it just is feeling more and more like we just have one branch of government. All, you know, all of the attacks on…
Tim Miller
I've got an Alaska rapid fire from you. I've heard two things about you that have little birdies who said in my ear. One is that you're like friends with Sarah Palin. I guess Alaska is so small and you ran against each other. But I don't know. I had a friend of a friend of Palin who said that Palin…
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.
Asked about working with a Democratic Senate caucus, Peltola said Alaska's delegation should fight for the state regardless of party. From her interview with Tim Miller on The Bulwark Daily, September 24, 2026.
The Bulwark
Mary Peltola
…ever do that. That is just such a travesty. And just big picture, when I kind of zoom out, it just feels like reverse Robin Hood, where we're taking from the poor and middle income and shifting that to the ultra-rich, not just rich people, ultra-rich. And I just, it just doesn't sit well with me.
Tim Miller
…to the Senate. And, you know, we kind of saw how Manchester and Cinema created problems at times and saw how they worked with Biden at times. I just kind of wonder how you sort of think about that, like being independent-minded, caring about Alaska, but also recognizing that you're in a party.
Mary Peltola
As an Alaskan, we really expect our congressional delegation, our federal delegation, to fight for us regardless of who the president is, regardless of your party. And there's always a lack of understanding about Alaska. You really just don't understand Alaska until you've been here. And we have such unique regions of our state. I think of Alaska as being six states within a state. And I'm talking about big Western states. So we just have unique, unique needs. If we were our own country, we'd be the 18th largest country in the world. 82% of our communities you can only get to by air. We're vast. And again, our energy sources come from many different places. So like when Biden was the president, I went toe-to-toe with him almost every week, if not twice a week, on things like prohibiting natural gas stoves. If you're in South Central Alaska, natural gas is your cheapest resource for things like stoves. And, you know, there was a push to require, you know, to phase out internal combustion gas engines for electric cars. Well, if your powerhouse is generated by diesel and you're paying a dollar a kilowatt hour, it makes no sense to have an…
Tim Miller
them. Thinking about being in the Senate, assuming you could win. There are a couple of things that come up as far as how the process is going to work. I just wonder if you've put any thoughts into Chuck Schumer as majority leader for the Democrats and whether you'd support him and the question of…
Mary Peltola
You know, I'm not focused on the composition right now. There's, you know, and it's so funny because we live in an unprecedented time and it's been an unprecedented time for a very long time. So I think. I'm sick of
Tim Miller
talking about how unprecedented it is, to be honest.
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.
Peltola, the Democratic nominee for U.S. Senate in Alaska, explained her campaign slogan "fish, family, freedom" to Tim Miller on The Bulwark Daily, September 24, 2026.
The Bulwark
Mary Peltola
That's great. I love it. I love it. Yes. Fish family freedom.
Tim Miller
Tell me about that fish family freedom. It has a nice ring to it, but I want to hear a little more. Give me the elevator pitch.
Mary Peltola
Well, in Alaska, I just really feel like all of the marquee issues for us fit into one or two of those categories. Take health care, families, childcare, families, food insecurity, fish, resource development, fish, our abundance issues, fish, corporate greed, fish, and many other things. And then freedom, of course. So that's
Tim Miller
why fish is first there. That was the thing I was always wondering. It isn't freedom, family, fish. It's inverse.
Mary Peltola
Well, and it's funny because my husband used to argue with me about that. He really felt like family should come first. And my argument was you can't have a family without fish. They have nothing to eat. And it's really the glue that kind of holds us together. And he said, no, you can't go fishing…
Tim Miller
Republicans have kind of taken freedom, right? Like they've tried to code it as a Republican term. And, you know, I'm just kind of wondering in what ways like you feel like, you know, maybe the Democrats have let them do that or that you think that's inaccurate as sort of a generic, whatever…
Speaker names come from our own diarization. The position is estimated from where the line sits in the episode.