Will Alaska flip its U.S. Senate seat?

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (KTUU) - We last heard from Sen. Dan Sullivan and Mary Peltola on election night. Since then, emails and texts from campaign staffers have slowed, and no interview requests have been granted. Both are waiting for even newer numbers.

“Once again, today’s ballot drop makes it abundantly clear that Mary is on her way to a decisive victory, and there is not a viable path to reelection for Senator Sullivan,” her campaign wrote in an email yesterday.

The Sullivan campaign sent an email this morning.

“With tens of thousands of ballots still to be counted, there’s a long way to go before every Alaskan’s voice is heard. We thank the Division of Elections for their hard work and look forward to a complete and accurate count,” they wrote.

Both need the magical number of 50% of the vote plus 1.

We are past Election Day, and while we know Democrats will hold the majority in both chambers of Congress, there are still other races yet to be called.

It’s not just Alaska where the Senate race is a bare-knuckle battle.

Scott Colom, a prosecutor, narrowly defeated the Republican incumbent to become the first Black senator to represent Mississippi in nearly 150 years, flipping a once solidly Republican seat.

The close race stories continue in North Carolina and Colorado.

It’s not unusual for candidates to wait until it looks like they’ve dramatically won a race before speaking with reporters. Sen. Sullivan is back in DC, and both campaigns work quietly behind the scenes, anxiously waiting for an update from the Alaska Division of Elections.

“There will likely be an update today- but at this time I cannot give you approximation of when that update will occur,” Steve Kirch Division of Elections communications specialist wrote in an email.