Democrats scored their top recruit for this race when former Representative Mary Peltola announced her campaign to unseat incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan. Peltola has led all four public polls of this race since October, and a fifth showed Sullivan losing to a generic Democrat. And those 10 points could prove to be extremely crucial for Democrats’ long-shot bid to recapture the Senate. Democrats need to win some Senate races in states that Trump won by double digits to have any hope of winning the chamber this year, and putting Alaska in play materially improves their odds. He is the author of It’s Time to Fight Dirty: How Democrats Can Build a Lasting Majority in American Politics.