Ads criticizing perennial candidate Gerald Heikes could boost his chances ahead of the August primary.
ByRepublican candidate for U.S. House, Gerald Heikes, photographed at the Anchorage Daily News on Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024.
Alaska’s U.S. House seat is one of a handful that is seen as winnable by both Democrats and Republicans, and could be pivotal in determining control of the U.S. House in November. But Alaska’s new voting system could complicate the GOP’s strategy in retaking a seat previously held by Republican Rep. Don Young for nearly 50 years.
Nick Begich III, Mary Peltola and Nancy Dahlstrom are running for the seat in the US Congress in 2024. Heikes, who has reported no fundraising of his own, stands only to gain name recognition from the attack ads, which emphasize his staunch opposition to abortion access. In an interview last week, Heikes said that he first entered the 2006 gubernatorial race because he was called by God to do so. Heikes, who also serves as a minister in an Anchorage church, has run numerous times for governor, U.S. Senate and U.S. House. Each time, he has garnered between a few hundred and a few thousand votes. Heikes calls himself a “constitutional Christian conservative.”
Heikes said that Dahlstrom had told him she supported continued abortion access in cases of rape and incest.
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