Mary Peltola
Mary Peltola represented Alaska in the U.S. House from 2022 to 2025 and lost her seat narrowly in 2024.
“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.”
The Bulwark · Policy · September 2026
Context
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.
Transcript
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
talking about how unprecedented it is, to be honest.
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
we've got the email pitch, but what about the vote for Schumer?
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.
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…
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