Alaska Senate: where the candidates stand

Fisheries, trawl bycatch and seafood economy

Peltola calls for banning factory trawling, keeping mid-water trawlers off bottom, fully funding fish stock assessments, and enforcing Magnuson-Stevens National Standards 8 and 9 against bycatch. She also backs fishery disaster funding, tribal seats on the North Pacific Fisheries Management Council, and opposes federal finfish farming.

Affordability, taxes and cost of living

Peltola proposes eliminating federal income tax for working Alaskans earning under $92,000 a year, ending taxes on Social Security benefits, and passing an expanded Child Tax Credit ($3,600 per child under six; $3,000 for ages 6-17). Her plan also includes anti-price-gouging rules, blocking anti-competitive grocery mergers, restoring Bypass Mail funding, creating an Essential Freight Service, right-to-repair laws, renter tax credits and expanded Indian Housing Block Grants.

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

Energy and taxes

Sullivan's campaign cites 'unleashing Alaska's energy potential' and passage of what it calls the biggest tax cut in American history as central achievements, and he says affordability problems will not be solved by a Democratic 'war on Alaska energy.' He supports expanded domestic energy production and tax cuts.

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

Health care and Medicaid

Peltola pledged to extend the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) subsidies and to reverse the Medicaid cuts enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, arguing the law cut care and raised costs for Alaskans to pay for tax breaks for major donors.

Health care and Medicaid

Sullivan voted for the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, which reduced Medicaid spending, and says he and Sen. Murkowski sought provisions to boost Medicaid payments to Alaska that were struck on budget-rule grounds. He broke with most Republicans in December to vote for Sen. Schumer's bill to extend expiring Obamacare subsidies, and points to Alaska Native exemptions, high-unemployment-area exceptions and Alaska's $1.4 billion allocation under the Rural Health Transformation Program.

Tariffs and trade

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

Tariffs and trade

Sullivan has offered consistent support for President Trump's tariffs and repeatedly opposed measures to terminate tariffs on Canada, Brazil and other trading partners, breaking with Sen. Murkowski. His aides say the duties are necessary leverage on trade and drug trafficking, and he has largely avoided the topic on the campaign trail in Alaska.

Energy and oil/gas development

Peltola supports expanded Alaska oil and gas development, including permitting reform, refining more Alaska oil in-state, and projects such as the Alaska LNG Pipeline. She also backs restoring federal tax credits for solar, wind and hydropower and federal funding to diversify Railbelt energy, plus small modular reactors, geothermal and biomass.

Energy affordability and rural power costs

She would modernize aging grids including the Railbelt, expand the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, supplement Alaska's Power Cost Equalization program with federal funds, and fund the Weatherization Assistance Program and HOMES Rebate. She frames these as responses to what she calls DC-driven energy price hikes.

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

Anti-corruption, ethics and campaign finance

Her 'Fixing the Rigged System' plan proposes 12-year congressional term limits, a ban on members of Congress and their immediate families trading individual stocks, passage of the DISCLOSE Act for donor disclosure over $10,000, and a constitutional amendment to overturn Citizens United.

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

Iran war and foreign policy

At the Kodiak fisheries debate Peltola criticized Sullivan's support for the war in Iran, saying it has driven up gas and diesel prices for fishermen and processors, and argued senators should not go to Washington to fight for one party. Her energy plan attributes skyrocketing Alaska energy prices to the war in Iran.

Iran and national security

Sullivan supported the U.S.-Israel strikes on Iran, saying Iran 'has been at war with us for almost 50 years' and that the strikes restored deterrence. He said he was unlikely to vote for the war powers resolution constraining the operation and expects Armed Services Committee oversight briefings.

No documented position found in reviewed sources.

Fisheries and bycatch

Sullivan is the sole sponsor of the Bycatch Reduction Act and backs a Seafood Policy Office in the Farm Bill to give fishermen access to the programs farmers have. He cites securing a ban on Russian seafood imports and says he is now pursuing the same ban against China.