The Senate Dems’ campaign arm this week dropped $1 million to start building out campaign infrastructure to support former Congresswoman Mary Peltola’s well-positioned bid against incumbent lightweight Dan Sullivan, Axios reports on another moment of Chuck Schumer’s quieter effectiveness to contrast with his still well-earned reputation of a mewling pussy among libs.
The 49th State is paradoxically cheap to advertise in given the media landscape but expensive to organize in, especially given Peltola’s base among native communities living in remote villages so the “infrastructure” challenge is real. Schumer does have some experience there however as he was DSCC chair in 2008 when Mark Begich – the Dem uncle of at-large GOP Congressman Nick Begich III, who defeated Peltola narrowly in 2024 – won, the first Dem Senate win in Alaska since 1974.