Peltola Leads Both Sullivans Combined in Alaska Senate Race

Mary Peltola holds 118,926 votes, leading both of her opponents combined in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race.

Peltola sits at 49 percent of the total votes counted so far, according to the latest figures from the Associated Press. Dan Sullivan trails with 114,676 votes, representing 47.2 percent. Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. accounts for 4,027 votes, or 1.7 percent of the tally.

Eighty-four percent of the state’s ballots have been tabulated.

The Democratic candidate needs just one more percentage point to reach the 50 percent threshold required to avoid an instant runoff under Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system.

We'll see which ballots these were, but they widened Peltola's lead from 1.1 to 1.8 points. She now has more votes than both Sullivans combined and a solid chance of reaching 50% to avoid RCV, and will if the final drops are as blue as they were in the primary. https://t.co/VYNQ1ITgIJ

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Dan Sullivan’s campaign insists the race remains open as election workers process tens of thousands of uncounted ballots. A spokesperson for the incumbent released a statement emphasizing that work remains.

“With tens of thousands of ballots still to be counted, there’s a long way to go before every Alaskan’s voice is heard. We thank the Division of Elections for their hard work and look forward to a complete and accurate count.”

said a spokesperson for the Sullivan campaign.

Alaska Senate Race: Peltola Tops Both Sullivans Combined, What's Left — Senate Watch

Meanwhile, the Department of Justice under President Donald Trump pursues a late-stage legal challenge seeking to alter the contest. Voting rights groups sharply criticized the litigation during proceedings in the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, describing the suit as “embarrassing and indefensible.”

The Elias Law Group represents the Peltola campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee in the ongoing court battle. Firm chair Marc Elias founded Democracy Docket.

Peltola Leads Both Sullivans Combined in Alaska Senate Race — Photo: joemygod.com

President Trump has also taken to social media to contest the numbers, publishing figures that misrepresent the standings of the two Sullivans relative to Peltola’s count. Trump has argued that votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. should transfer directly to Dan Sullivan, alleging that the Peltola campaign introduced the candidate as a decoy. The Peltola campaign denies those allegations.

The next major batch of election results is scheduled for release on Friday.