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Democrat Mary Peltola, who is running for Alaska's Senate seat, is known for her expletive-ridden rants.
Nine former Peltola staffers dished dirt on their old boss and painted a picture of her as prone to anger in late September.
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Dan Sullivan has tried to leverage Peltola's outbursts to boost his own re-election bid, Alaskans appear unbothered by her rough rhetoric in a midterm battle that could determine control of Congress.
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Leaked text messages revealed Peltola's foul-mouthed reaction to a commercial that showed her posing with a commercial fisheries executive, The New York Times reported.
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She said of the executive: 'F**k that r***rd,' before adding 'honestly, I nothing him,' a term of dismissal, according to the texts.
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Her campaign told the Times that she regretted the derogatory language and knew it was inappropriate.
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At least four staffers also claimed to have heard her use the word 'f***ot,' according to the Times, which her campaign denied.
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Sullivan even brought a printout of the article with him to campaign events to claim Peltola 'doesn't like her fellow Alaskans.'
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The president himself dubbed the Democratic hopeful a 'nut job' during his visit in the Last Frontier.
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Despite that, Don Rearden, who went to high school with Peltola, told the Daily Mail that Alaskans would 'probably forgive her' for language often heard among the state's fishermen.
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In late September, Democratic hopeful Mary Peltola was exposed for hateful outbursts.
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But Alaskans who spoke to the Daily Mail claim people will 'probably forgive her' for language often heard among the state's fishermen
Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan tried to leverage the alleged outbursts against Peltola and even brought a print-out of the article to Donald Trump's October midterm rally in Alaska
President Donald Trump attacked Peltola during his recent Alaska midterms rally and called her 'a nut job'
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'I, myself, can swear like a sailor.
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People in other industries are talking like this, but then we give it a pass for locker room talk.
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Trump also gets to say whatever he wants,' Rearden told the Daily Mail.
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Warren Richard Jones, a former US Marine who considers himself an independent, told the Daily Mail that he didn't appreciate reading about Peltola's tirades but that they were not a deal breaker.
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'I don't like it, and I just don't permit it in my presence.
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He added: 'The R-word was unneeded.
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When she said: "I nothing him," that was actually really funny.'
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Erika Monahan, who had planned to vote for Peltola, told the Daily Mail that 'saying something impolite behind closed doors' was not 'ideal behavior' but said the story didn't change her mind.
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Monahan said she is more upset about Sullivan's continued loyalty to Trump and his 'stupid and unlawful war.'
'Give me a break.
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It disgusts me,' she added.
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'You can have conservative opinions very fiscally, you can advocate for limited government.
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But a decent American can't cast a vote for them.'
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The Alaskans the Daily Mail spoke to said the New York Times report exposing Peltola's outbursts did not change their minds on who they vote for
Some polls even saw Peltola take a lead over Sullivan after the Times article revealed her expletive-ridden ways of communication
The Democratic hopeful tragically lost her husband in 2023, only four months after her mother also passed away.
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Her campaign said that 'Mary sometimes struggled to deal with her grief'
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Peltola also came to blows with the liberal, pro-choice advocacy group Planned Parenthood, according to The Times.
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In 2024, she became furious via a text message to her staff after they criticized her for voting yes on a bill with anti-abortion policies.
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'I hope Planned Parenthood knows that if we don't win it's more their loss than ours.
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F**K THOSE B****ES,' she allegedly wrote.
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She later angrily wrote of a woman on the board of her local chapter of Planned Parenthood: 'I hope she dies of a botched abortion.'
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A rumor that Peltola used the N-word after an October 2024 dinner honoring nearly 4,000 black soldiers, published in the conservative publication Alaska Landmine, was denied by her team as a 'smear campaign.'
In addition to the responses to individual incidents, Peltola's campaign admitted that she had trouble coping with the deaths of her mother and husband, who passed away within four months of one another in 2023.
'At the time of their passing, Mary was parenting kids through their own grief, serving full-time in the US House of Representatives thousands of miles from home, and running a competitive re-election campaign – all while shouldering the enormous burden of grief,' campaign spokesman Harry Child told the Times.
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'Like any person who has gone through multiple personal tragedies in the span of a few months, Mary sometimes struggled to deal with her grief.'
In fact, since the original article was published on September 23, New York Times polls throughout October have seen Peltola take a slight lead over Sullivan.
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Online prediction market Kalshi sees the Democrat far ahead of Sullivan, with 72 percent against only 30 percent betting for her to win the Senate race as of Monday.
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The nonpartisan Cook Political Report still rates the battle a toss-up.
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Her outbursts have further become a secondary issue as a dramatic saga around a 'decoy' candidate, who shares a name with the Republican incumbent and is also listed on the ballot, has drawn unprecedented international attention to the midterm battle instead.
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The Daily Mail contacted Peltola's campaign for comment.
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