Treg Taylor

Uh, Dave Bronson has said, "No, I'm not going to with- not going to suspend my campaign," 'cause it's too late for him to withdraw and get off the ballot.

Uh, Treg Taylor, the state's former attorney general under Dunleavy, is the other Republican in the race.

He hasn't said definitively whether he'll suspend his campaign in order to support Wilson.

At least I haven't seen a statement from him, and I haven't been able to reach him to ask him about it yet.

So that's something I'm gonna watch for.

But with Trump's support, um, I think Wilson gets up there into the high 30s, low 40s for first choice votes, and then she's gonna need second choice votes from people who voted for Bronson and Treg Taylor as their first choices.

And if Trump is telling people to only vote for Wilson, that's gonna be a problem for that.

Yeah.

I then asked him to get out of the race, and he agreed.

I said, "Too many Republicans, three, are running against one Democrat, and you won't be able to win." He agreed to get out, but three days later, without notification, quickly jumped back in, along with a third Republican candidate, who I never heard of, named Treg Taylor.

Bernadette Wilson is outstanding.

She will make a great governor.

What was this cocksucker's name? Treg, uh, Treg something or other.

He has a fucking stupid name.

Um, what, Taylor? Treg Taylor? What a dumb name.

So Treg Taylor, who the fuck that guy is, and Dave Bronson, you selfish cunts, what have you done? You're now- you're gonna stay in the race against the Trump-endorsed candidate who's already overwhelmingly the most popular person, and so you can turn around and hand the fucking governorship to a goddamn socialist Democrat? Alaskans need to police their own.

Um, President Trump is expected to do his speech around 3:30 this afternoon, and this is a midterm rally, according to the Republican National Committee, and it's expected to draw a lineup of Alaska Republicans.

We're told gubernash- gubernatorial candidates Bernadette Wilson, Dave Bronson, and Treg Taylor all plan to be here, along with Senator Dan Sullivan and Congressman Nick Begich.

And this comes just over a week after Vice President JD Vance campaigned for Sullivan in Fairbanks and Anchorage.

Like you said, Kristen, this will be the president's first time in Wasilla, and the last time he was in Alaska was the 2025 summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.

So let's switch gears for a second, 'cause I wanna get your hot take on this particular thing.

The, um, APOC, when it ruled a- about how Treg Taylor shouldn't be on the ballot, and then the lieutenant governor made the statement that he was gonna be pulled off, and then they reversed it.

And what, what are your thoughts on all that? It's a wild thing that was happening, you know, right in front of our eyes in real time, and it was like within a cer- within, like, two weeks it was, like, flip-flop reversed.

It just seemed cr- like a crazy thing to happen in a crazy time.

So there are exceptions, but Treg didn't even try to qualify for an exemption.

He just sort of flat refused to reveal it.

Then what do you think about the, the lieutenant governor's office? I think they, like, produced some kind of doc- like, they did some kind of Excel spreadsheet that showed all these anomalies and different things, and then they reversed the, the Treg Taylor decision.

That was the...

The former Sitka state lawmaker brought in two point one million dollars during that eight-week stretch.

That's more than twice as much as Republicans Bernadette Wilson, Dave Bronson, and Treg Taylor combined.

Much of that has come from large donors, and nearly half of his money comes from donors who list addresses in New York and California.

But in a statement, Christ-Tompkins' campaign highlighted that he also brought in more money from more in-state donors than the rest of the field combined.

Like Christ-Tompkins, about seventy percent of her overall fundraising has come from outside of Alaska.

She's taken five-figure donations from investors, developers, and business owners from people in Texas, Florida, and Montana, and she also raked in thousands of small-dollar donations from across the country.

But the top Republican fundraiser of the cycle so far remains former Attorney General Treg Taylor.

He reported nearly two hundred seventy thousand dollars in income since August, but more than half of that comes from Taylor himself and his running mate, businesswoman Kandi English.

The newest one is the Democratic Governors Association ad that's... [chuckles] I'm gonna ask you this question now 'cause it's kinda carnival barker.

"Hey, would you like another portion of corruption in government? Then you just need to call Bronson, Wilson, and Taylor." I, I mean, it's, it's one of those, like, hard sell, soap sell, carny kinda things, and it stands out to me.

Every time that thing comes on, I hear it.

Mm-hmm.

This is the slackest cycle I've seen.

I, I don't know, there's nobody managing campaigns that lives in state anymore, and you can see the out-of-state influence in the campaigns.

You saw the, what, the fishing vote from another country and Mary Tole, Tola's ad for Alaska First, and you see this, people pronouncing Kenai instead of Kenai, right? You see people leaving a bunch of name tags on Treg Taylor's chairs at the debate 'cause they don't know that people can't make it 'cause the road's closed.

This is the slackest, least information, and really poorest-conducted campaign season I've seen in a long time, and we have more at stake than I can ever remember.

The governor's chair is open.

Mike Dunleavy is termed out, and the September AARP poll has Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins at forty percent against three Republicans, Bernadette Wilson at twenty, former Anchorage Mayor Dave Bronson at fourteen, former Attorney General Treg Taylor at seven.

Add the Republicans up, forty-one.

The Democrat, forty.