September 24, 2025
Dear Republican candidates for governor of Alaska,
First, thank you for your dedication to Alaska and your willingness to run for governor of our great state. Together, we are engaging in the arena of debate, testing and weighing the best of ideas. Together, we are bringing our forefathers vision to fruition and for that, I am thankful to each of you.
I have no doubt that our robust field of Republican candidates will produce the best nominee for our party who will win next November and keep Alaska’s highest office in Republican hands.
I’m writing today to ask you to join me in pledging to drop out of the race for Governor if you are not the top Republican voter getter in next August’s primary. With ranked choice voting, the only way we can secure a prosperous future for Alaska is by uniting behind our primary winner so that our votes are not diluted in November.
We learned this lesson firsthand in the past two cycles at the Congressional level. In 2022, Sarah Palin and Nick Begich both remained in the race after the primary and divided the Republican votes, allowing Mary Peltola to win the seat. In 2024 however, Republicans united behind Nick Begich after he received the most votes among Republican candidates in the primary, allowing him to consolidate conservative votes and win decisively in the general election. We know that ranked choice voting was devised by those who would like to defeat us and disenfranchise voters.
As a sponsor of the current effort to repeal ranked choice voting this cycle, I am hopeful that voters will reject ranked choice voting at the ballot box next November. Until then we must not allow ranked choice voting to silence Alaska’s voices. We must unite to overcome it.
I am 100% committed to dropping out of this race if I am not the top Republican voter getter, and to fully endorsing whoever is that winner. Winning this election for the future of Alaska and conservative values is vastly more important than any of us individually, and I am asking you to join me in that pledge today.
Sincerely,
Bernadette Wilson
Paid for by Bernadette for Governor. PO Box 112149, Anchorage AK 99511