Democrat Mary Peltola, Alaska's new U.S. House representative-elect, has seen a surge of national attention as she prepares to take office and campaigns for the November general election.
. The November election, with Democrat Peltola, Republican Nick Begich III, Republican former Gov. Sarah Palin and Libertarian Chris Bye on the ballot, decides who will serve for the new full two-year term.
Calls from family members took precedence. And then, on their own phones, Peltola’s staff started seeing messages alerting them to impending calls from high-profile political figures, like Alaska’s Republican U.S. senators. “Someone said something like, ‘Man, that’s so cool that you got to the president,’” Heckendorn said. Peltola responded that she really was hoping to talk to her 14-year-old, Heckendorn said.
McParland joined the campaign just two weeks before the Aug. 16 election that made Peltola Alaska’s congresswoman-elect. “More than anything else, we’ve been just trying to maintain the same tenor of the campaign. All of the people that were ignoring us before, we’re just kind of ignoring them presently,” McParland said.
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