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Exclusive: Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy It is prepared to announce a 2028 run for the US Senate against Sen. Lisa Murkowski, the Republican legislator, who has repeatedly met with President Donald Trump, for several sources that are familiar with the situation or near the governor.
“He won’t quit his term”, an upper source closes To Dunleavy who With him in Juneau, Alaska, he worked with him, told Fox News Digital from the long-term plans of the Governors-Als the next race of the Senate in the last border in 2026 with the incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan.
The last governor who steps down to run for a higher position – in 2008 Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin – “never recovered,” said the source.
Dunleavy “takes care of and wants Alaska to be successful“The source said that the governor joked recently that he couldn’t understand why people in Washington want to live” with all this concrete “and not in the green Arctic as a reason why the Republican born in Pennsylvania would like to avoid the east coast.
“But he knows that (being In Washington) is the only way to do things, “said the source, adding that Dunleavy was the second governor who supports Trump in 2016, and that a top employee of the White House visits more than any other governor despite a 3,500 mile hike.
“He is not an ego and pushes himself in front of the cameras. He creates things … he does not say: ‘Please bring me to this committee’ or ‘I have to take part in this ball’. He doesn’t like this kind of things,” added the source.
“Trump previously talked to him about running and wants him to run.”
Dunleavy was especially present at Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage, Alaska, met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 15.
Although it is a red state, it is a “climb” to be elected governor as a Republican. Another source near the situation said Fox News Digital Wednesday.
Former governor Jay Hammond was the last Republican in 1978 who won the re -election there. Another Republican, Sean Parnell, who got into the job after Palin’s departure in 2009, did not technically win the re -election during the 2010 cycle, which kept him in office.
“Many people mentioned him (breed) towards him and … I think it’s a very practical option for him,” said the source.
“Obviously there are many frustrations Senator Murkowski“He said and added that inequality in Trump’s relationship between the two Alaskans was” no secret “.
“Governor Dunleavy was not only a successful governor, but a fairly strong ally for him. So it is only natural that he would hear this from Alaskans – but also from people in the wider Maga movement.”
Sen. Lisa Murkowski, left; Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy, right. (Reuters; Getty Images)
Like Murkowski, Dunleavy was also successful in the State Ranged Choice Election system – The critic claims that the Democrats had extremely helped. Mary Peltola, a democrat, particularly won the seat of the late Republican MP Don Young, who headed the district district district for decades.
Murkowski was “never confronted with a challenger like him”, who has far -reaching support outside of conservative circles, the second source found.
The governor is very closely with local communities on the north and beyond, where the residents in distant communities have praised him for his focus Alaska’s energy development Potential and allocation of resources for problems such as rural education and infrastructure.
A political analyst and opinion researcher in Alaska agreed.
“Conservatives would greet an opportunity to depart Murkowski,” he said in an interview on Thursday.
“The fact that (Trump) and Murkowski had such a tense relationship and dunleavy And the president, who has a good relationship, really did us to talk about this point, ”he said.
One area on which all parties agreed is the importance of the local coordination in elections in Alaska – especially those with Murkowski or Dunleavy. While the domestic electorate lean on the left, they also cross party lines to support both candidates – and found what the student described as an interesting showdown.
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Anchorage, Alaska’s skyline. (Ziao Chen/Getty Images)
“What would happen in such a matchup is that they feel in conflict and that some of them are probably back-dunleavy and some of them would see Murkowski … those who are primarily involved in the oil, gas and resource business.
The difference between the two was that Dunleavy’s other basis is firmly on conservative law, while Murkowskis is in the center, where she also takes support from moderate democrats.
Murkowski, daughter of another Republican governor of Alaska, Frank Murkowski, made an offer in 2010 in particular to win a writing campaign after he was thrown out of the GOP ticket by the Tea-Party candidate Joe Miller.
Everyone who spoke to Fox News Digital agreed that the race could be seen very closely.
Alaska also clearly swears his governors one month earlier than the presidency, the congress and most other state leaders in December.
Fox News Digital turned to a representative of Dunleavy and a contact that is listed for Murkowski’s campaign and her Senate Office and the White House for a comment.
