Alaska US Senate candidate Mary Peltola has rejected the support of Kamala Harris, her fellow Democrat, after the 2024 presidential candidate sent out a seemingly unsolicited fundraising appeal on Peltola’s behalf. Harris, who lost Alaska – typically a Republican-voting state – by 13 points during her unsuccessful White House run, on Wednesday sent an email from her political organization to supporters of Peltola, a former US House member. Donations would be split between Harris’s organization and Peltola, the email said.
It was a fairly innocuous message and didn’t explicitly endorse Peltola. But the unwanted help was swiftly batted away by the Alaskan’s campaign. Earlier this year, Harris, who also ran for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, left the door open when asked about her future ambitions.
I’m thinking about it, I’m thinking about it,” Harris said, when US civil rights leader Al Sharpton asked if she was planning to run again. Harris replaced Joe Biden as the Democratic 2024 presidential candidate after questions and concerns about Biden’s fitness as he initially ran for re-election became inescapable. With only 107 days to run her campaign, she lost the electoral college and the popular vote to Donald Trump to hand him a second presidency.
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