Republican senator Dan Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola advance in Alaska Senate primary

Result tees up marquee race in US midterm elections, which could decide if Republicans or Democrats control Senate Incumbent Dan S Sullivan, the US senator, advanced in Alaska’s non-partisan primary race for his seat on Tuesday alongside Mary Peltola, a former Democratic congresswoman. With the top four candidates moving forward from Alaska’s open primaries to the general election, the Associated Press reported that Sullivan and Peltola had qualified for November’s general election. Another Dan Sullivan, a retired schoolteacher and US Forest Service employee who infuriated his namesake senator by running as a long-shot Republican candidate, was in a distant third place, although his qualification had yet to be confirmed. David B Leslie, a Democrat from Fairbanks, Alaska, is currently in fourth place. He appears to have raised no money for his campaign, and has reportedly said he has no idea why a Super Pac (political action committee) named the American Democracy Project spent about $300,000 supporting his candidacy. After 80% of votes were counted, Peltola led the primary, at 48%, while Sullivan, the senator, had 42.8%. The result tees up one of the marquee races of this year’s US

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