Alaska reporters are pressing Mary Peltola on her thoughts on political violence, and the Democrat really didn’t want to condemn the third assassination attempt on President Trump’s life.
“A third assassin attempted to overturn the will of Alaska voters who elected President Trump to the White House, and Mary Peltola really didn’t want to talk about it. Saying political violence is wrong shouldn’t be hard, but once again, Peltola has proven she puts Alaska last and her radical Lower 48 Democrat donors first,” said NRSC Regional Press Secretary Nick Puglia.
Read more from Alaska’s News Source below.
One week later: Alaska candidates, politicians on White House Correspondents Dinner shooting
Wil Courtney
Alaska’s News Source
May 5, 2026
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Alaska’s News Source asked the Peltola campaign why it had not publicly commented on the issue. That question has not been answered.
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Mary Peltola, the Democratic former Congresswoman challenging Sullivan for his senate seat, did not publicly respond — at first.
Peltola had not yet publicly commented when the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the Senate Republican campaign arm, attacked her two days after the shooting. Peltola did not respond directly to the NRSC’s statement. She responded after Alaska’s News Source asked for comment.
“Mary Peltola is so scared of her radical base and Lower 48 donors that she’s refusing to condemn the left-wing assassination attempt on President Trump and his administration,” the National Republican Senate Committee, a republican fundraising and communications group, said in an April 27 news release.
The Sullivan campaign echoed those claims in a May 1 statement. “Mary Peltola can’t bring herself to condemn political violence because the people she really answers to, far-left lower 48 donors, won’t let her,” Sullivan campaign spokesperson Nate Adams said in a statement to Alaska’s News Source.
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Alaska’s News Source also asked Alaska Democrats to respond to the criticism. Party Chairman Eric Croft did not directly address the claims made against Peltola, but said in a statement “violence has no place in our politics, and the Alaska Democratic Party will always stand against actions that make our state and country worse off.”
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