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Trump Rallies for Sullivan in Alaska Amid Tight Senate Race

9:20 PM ETConfirmed

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In Short: Former President Donald Trump rallied supporters in Alaska for Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, aiming to secure the seat in the upcoming midterm elections.

Former President Donald Trump held a rally in Alaska on Tuesday to support Republican Senator Dan Sullivan in his bid for reelection, drawing a crowd of enthusiastic supporters eager to hear from the former president.

Supporters like Fuller, who arrived early with a camping chair adorned with an American flag, expressed their determination to see Republicans win the election. Fuller said, 'If the Republicans don't win, everything's going to be blocked. So I think it's going to be a big wall of getting things done.'

Trump's visit to Alaska follows Vice President JD Vance's appearance in Fairbanks on Monday, where he rallied for Sullivan at an airport hangar, highlighting the Republican Party's efforts to secure the seat.

Sullivan faces a tight race against Democrat Mary Peltola, with recent polling showing Peltola leading with 46 percent to Sullivan's 41 percent, and after ranked choice allocations, the final margin ended at 53 percent for Peltola and 47 percent for Sullivan, according to Breitbart.

The rally also featured a call to action against Sullivan, with ads titled 'Tell Dan Sullivan: Stop Raising Our Costs,' urging viewers to call 202-224-3004, as reported by Justthenews.

Trump emphasized Sullivan's record, saying, 'Dan Sullivan's a great senator. You look at the things he's done. He would call me all the time because I think — I definitely know — nobody has helped Alaska like Donald Trump.'

The rally comes as Republicans are increasingly concerned about the midterm elections, with Trump acknowledging the challenges in a recent rally in Oklahoma, stating, 'We’re worried about Michigan. We’re worried about Texas. We’re worried about a few states.'

Background

What's confirmed

• The presidential visit follows Vice President JD Vance’s appearance in Fairbanks on Monday, where he rallied supporters for Sullivan at an airport hangar.
• Three weeks before the midterm elections, Republican heavy hitters are campaigning in parts of the country that, prior to this cycle, were reliably red. (TNND) Vance acknowledged the tightness of the race and the tendency for the party in power to lose seats in midterm elections and told reporters, "We know that we're swimming upstream."
• Over the past 45 years, Alaska has elected a Democratic senator only once.
• “But I think that we have as good a chance as I’ve ever seen to really defy those historical trends. So we’re not giving up anywhere. We’re just trying to win the races that we can and focus where we can," Vance told reporters.
• "For some reason when you have a sitting president, no matter how good, nobody's done what I've done, nobody, not even close, but no matter how good, they seem to be at a big disadvantage, tremendous disadvantage," Trump said.

What's still developing

• “We have been here since 4 a.m.,” Fuller said, holding a folded camping chair with an American flag print near Church on the Rock.
• “Alaskans are built tough, and we know that we can tolerate the cold. What we cannot tolerate is having, you know, our education cut back on more, our Medicaid cut back on more, and this inflation on costs of fuel, costs of groceries is just outstanding,” she said.
• Dan Sullivan and Congressman Nick Begich, both Republicans running for reelection.
• Palmer resident Christina Carrie-Olson said she already “voted red” by mail.
• “This is a historic event,” Sherman Leifer said.
• “Mary Peltola couldn’t get a single bill signed into law in Congress, worked hand-in-hand with the far-left, and then immediately cashed out as a Lower 48 lobbyist. Peltola puts Alaska Last,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
• President Donald Trump is heading to the Last Frontier on Tuesday to stump for Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) and will deliver remarks at 7:30 p.m.
• The Alaskan Senate seat is viewed as a must-keep for the GOP, but Sullivan is facing a challenge from Democrat Mary Peltola, and some forecasters have shifted the race to the left.
• RealClearPolitics shows Sullivan less than 2 points behind Peltola in the polls.
• Sullivan is running as a Republican in order to draw votes away from the incumbent senator and give his Democratic opponent, Mary Peltola an advantage in the general election.
• Both ads “Tell Dan Sullivan: Stop Raising Our Costs,” with the same footage, graphics, and call-to-action phone number (202-224-3004).
• Sullivan, a former schoolteacher who came in third in the primary, is seeking to unseat Sen. Dan S.

Sources

• Alaska Public Medialink
• Alaska Storylink
• NRSC.orglink
• Washingtonexaminerlink
• Justthenewslink
• NBC Newslink
• Politicolink
• 13Whamlink
• Wcti12link
• Breitbartlink
• PBSlink
• Foxbaltimorelink
• WarpBeat — background on Trump Rallies New York for Blakeman in Midterm Push link
• WarpBeat — background on Trump Rallies Alabama Voters Amid GOP Midterm Concerns link
• Face the Nation — video link