Lt. Gov. Nancy Dahlstrom and businessman Nick Begich could both advance to the November ballot as they seek to unseat Democratic U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola.
Updated: 32 minutes agoNick Begich III, Mary Peltola and Nancy Dahlstrom are running for the US Congress seat in 2024.
But Alaska’s GOP remains split. Dahlstrom recently received an endorsement from former President Donald Trump, adding to endorsements from House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-Louisiana, and other national figures. Begich has coalesced support from several Republican women’s clubs and sitting legislators. “We’re going to respect what we believe is the desire of the people. I would hope that the lieutenant governor would do the same,” said Begich’s campaign advisor Benadette Wilson. “As far as our campaign goes, we are absolutely committed to that.”
She said she wanted to “sit down and say, ‘let’s look at these votes, let’s look at the numbers, let’s see what we have to do to have a Republican in this seat.’” In Trump’s recent endorsement of Dahlstrom, he accused Begich of costing the GOP Alaska’s U.S. House seat — which had been held by Republican Rep. Don Young for nearly 50 years before his 2022 death — because Begich had “refused to get out of this race last time, which caused the Republicans to lose this important seat.”
Though Dahlstrom is courting votes from the Trump-aligned electorate, her campaign is also signaling that she could appeal to Republicans with a distaste for Trump. She recently announced a campaign finance committee. Half of its 12 members, mostly prominent business leaders and members of the Alaska GOP, had previously endorsed Nikki Haley when she was still running against Trump in the GOP presidential primary.
Grasser said he similarly supported Haley over Trump in the GOP presidential primary not because of Trump’s policies, but because of Trump’s off-putting communication style.
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