Liz Ruskin

Hi, Myles.

It's great to be here.

Well, Dan Sullivan, when he got into politics, I would say he was a George W. Bush Republican.

He served in the State Department under the Bush administration, and he's evolved in

He was skeptical of President Trump at first, a candidate Trump in 2016 when the Access Hollywood tape came out.

He called on Trump to get out of the race.

But now he's cleaving closely to Trump.

Well, his big issue, and this isn't surprising, is developing Alaska's resources.

And he recently gave a big speech to the Alaska legislature, an annual address, and he just railed against Biden, the Biden administration.

President Biden's been out of office for quite a while now, but he is still running sort of against Biden and all of the

Measures he took to conserve federal land in Alaska.

Well, since 2022.

It's interesting because before 2022, she had very little name recognition in Alaska.

She ran to replace our long-term congressman, Don Young, when Mr. Young died.

And so she in 2022, she won the special election and also that year won the regular election.

And the race got a lot of attention because Sarah Palin was in it.

Yeah, but it is really hard to imagine that in Alaska, you know, a Democrat just does not unseat an incumbent Republican unless that Republican is under indictment, as we saw with a previous holder of this seat, Senator Ted Stevens.

It's just hard to imagine that a Democrat is going to unseat an incumbent Republican.

But, yeah, we don't know.

Yeah, she has this slogan, Fish Family Freedom, and it's a populist sentiment.