{"id":77598,"date":"2026-08-19T03:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/democrat-mary-peltola-and-republican-dan-sullivan-lead-in-alaska-primary-for-us-senate-us-politics-live\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T03:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T08:54:56","slug":"democrat-mary-peltola-and-republican-dan-sullivan-lead-in-alaska-primary-for-us-senate-us-politics-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/democrat-mary-peltola-and-republican-dan-sullivan-lead-in-alaska-primary-for-us-senate-us-politics-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican Dan Sullivan lead in Alaska primary for US Senate \u2013 US politics live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Sullivan is running for third term while Peltola is fighting to flip seat and aid Democrats retake control of Congress<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations have been pouring in this morning for <strong>Angie Nixon<\/strong>, the progressive who won the primary for <strong>US Senate<\/strong> in <strong>Florida<\/strong> in a major upset to the Democratic establishment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations @AngieNixon,\u201d congresswoman <strong>Ilhan Omar<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/IlhanMN\/status\/2089913139110314083?s=20\">posted on X<\/a>. \u201cWe are so proud of you and can\u2019t wait for you to be the next Senator of Florida. Democrats need to unite and send a message.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/aug\/19\/mary-peltola-dan-sullivan-alaska-primary-election-us-senate-florida-california-wyoming--donald-trump-us-politics-latest\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incumbent Sullivan is running for third term while Peltola is fighting to flip seat and aid Democrats retake control of Congress Congratulations have been pouring in this morning for Angie Nixon, the progressive who won the primary for US Senate in Florida in a major upset to the Democratic establishment. \u201cCongratulations @AngieNixon,\u201d congresswoman Ilhan Omar &#8230; <a title=\"Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican Dan Sullivan lead in Alaska primary for US Senate \u2013 US politics live\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/19\/democrat-mary-peltola-and-republican-dan-sullivan-lead-in-alaska-primary-for-us-senate-us-politics-live\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican Dan Sullivan lead in Alaska primary for US Senate \u2013 US politics live\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77598","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}