Democrat Mary Peltola and Republican Dan Sullivan lead in Alaska primary for US Senate – US politics live

Incumbent Sullivan is running for third term while Peltola is fighting to flip seat and aid Democrats retake control of Congress The Guardian’s Sam Levin and Richard Luscombe have more on Angie Nixon and her surprise primary win in Florida for US Senate . Nixon, a state representative and member of the Democratic Socialists of America , beat former army intelligence officer Alexander Vindman , despite having significantly less funding going into the primary – $975,000 to Vindman’s $16.3m at the end of July, according to Florida Politics . Democrats have their sights set on upsetting Republican Ashley Moody in the US Senate general election. Moody, picked by DeSantis to replace Marco Rubio when he became secretary of state last year, won what was almost a token primary election to run in November to serve the remaining two years of Rubio’s term. Nixon, who was born in Jacksonville, has aggressively opposed DeSantis’s policies, including with a sit-in at the governor’s office this spring to protest Republican redistricting, the Miami Herald reported . That demonstration resulted in her facing misdemeanor charges of trespassing and resisting , which she is fighting in court. Dan J Sullivan is a retired schoolteacher and US Forest Service employee living in the town of Petersburg in south-eastern Alaska, who is running as a Republican for the US Senate. Dan S Sullivan is a Republican US senator, who has represented Alaska since 2015. Both candidates will appear on the ballot, one name after the other, when Alaskans vote in primary elections this week – a complicated quirk of the contest that has drawn howls from Republicans. Continue reading...