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National Republicans use often-doomed legislation to target Alaska Rep. Peltola (D)
National Republicans use often-doomed legislation to target Alaska Rep. PeltolaWASHINGTON — In the early days of the 2024 election cycle, national Republicans are working a strategy to flip Alaska's newly Democratic seat in the House of Representatives, taking out advertisements and issuing statements attacking Rep. Mary Peltola's voting record on what she and her staff describe as "messaging bills."
The National Republican Congressional Committee in March named Peltola one of its top targets for the 2024 cycle. She holds one of 37 blue seats they're trying to place in GOP control next term. By traditional measures, Peltola is vulnerable: a first-term Democrat in a district previously represented by a Republican for 49 years, in a state that former President Donald Trump carried by 10% in 2020.
It's still early in the 2024 race, and no Republican challengers have yet declared their candidacy for Alaska's lone House seat. Yet the NRCC and other national Republican groups have already released messaging and poured funding into advertisements that condemn several of the freshman representative's votes.
The NRCC has called Peltola's opposition to the Republican-led energy package "anti-Alaska" and her no vote on the debt ceiling an act of "political theater." Other statements have criticized her votes against rescinding Internal Revenue Service funding and enacting a border security proposal.
However, none of those bills have passed the Democrat-controlled Senate or have been signed into law by President Joe Biden. Both Peltola and her campaign manager and chief of staff Anton McParland have expressed frustration with the so-called "messaging bills."
The National Republican Congressional Committee in March named Peltola one of its top targets for the 2024 cycle. She holds one of 37 blue seats they're trying to place in GOP control next term. By traditional measures, Peltola is vulnerable: a first-term Democrat in a district previously represented by a Republican for 49 years, in a state that former President Donald Trump carried by 10% in 2020.
It's still early in the 2024 race, and no Republican challengers have yet declared their candidacy for Alaska's lone House seat. Yet the NRCC and other national Republican groups have already released messaging and poured funding into advertisements that condemn several of the freshman representative's votes.
The NRCC has called Peltola's opposition to the Republican-led energy package "anti-Alaska" and her no vote on the debt ceiling an act of "political theater." Other statements have criticized her votes against rescinding Internal Revenue Service funding and enacting a border security proposal.
However, none of those bills have passed the Democrat-controlled Senate or have been signed into law by President Joe Biden. Both Peltola and her campaign manager and chief of staff Anton McParland have expressed frustration with the so-called "messaging bills."
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