Alaska Senate candidate hopes to ride Democratic wave Republican U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan is on the defensive in Alaska, a state that has long been a GOP strongholdJUNEAU, Alaska -- Al Gross commands a fishing boat as a narrator describes him prospecting for gold and killing a grizzly bear in self-defense in an ad meant to underscore a central theme of Gross' U.S. Senate campaign as an independent: that he knows Alaska. The largest bloc of Alaska registered voters identify as independents; among the parties, Republicans far outnumber Democrats. Trump won Alaska in 2016 with 51% of the vote; Democrat Hillary Clinton won 36%. Gross grew up in Alaska; his father, the late Avrum Gross, was a state attorney general. Jacqueline Tupou, who manages commercial real estate and was a Republican elector in the 2016 presidential race, said Sullivan has been an advocate for Alaska.

Source: ABC News October 20, 2020 05:03 UTC