Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country.

* Why are Republicans worried about Alaska’s Senate race? Because former Rep. Mary Peltola continues to position herself as a real contender: The Democrat raised nearly $9 million in the first quarter (January through March), setting a state record. Peltola is taking on Sen. Dan Sullivan, the Republican incumbent, in the fall.

* In related news, there are growing concerns in Alaska that the Supreme Court might prohibit late-arriving mail ballots, which would could disenfranchise thousands of Alaskan voters.

* In California’s gubernatorial race, Donald Trump recently endorsed former Fox News host Steve Hilton, but over the weekend, the state GOP refused to follow the president’s lead, which Politico described as “a stark rebuke of the sitting president by the party’s rank-and-file in the nation’s most populous state.”

* In South Carolina’s Republican Senate primary, the three-way contest is down to two: Paul Dans, who oversaw the right-wing’s Project 2025, ended his bid late last week and endorsed Sen. Lindsey Graham’s other intraparty rival, businessman Mark Lynch, who has been self-funding his first statewide candidacy.

* It’s a relatively quiet week for elections with national implications, with one exception: Voters in New Jersey will fill Democratic Gov. Mikie Sherrill’s vacancy, with Democrat Analilia Mejia favored to prevail over GOP nominee Joe Hathaway, a city councilor in Randolph. Election Day is Thursday.

* James Blair, a deputy chief of staff in the Trump White House, is temporarily leaving his role to oversee the president’s outside political operation, which has a budget of over $300 million and is expected to be active nationwide in this year’s midterm election cycle.

* And in Wisconsin, after conservative appeals court Judge Maria Lazar’s landslide defeat last week, a growing number of state GOP officials are calling for the ouster of their state party chair, Brian Schimming.

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