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- U.S. Senate candidate Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) was accused of shoving a male aide in February 2024.
- Former aides say Peltola used the homophobic slur “faggot,” sometimes toward her own staff.
- A 2024 text shows Peltola called a fisheries executive “retarded,” a term she later regretted.
- The campaign denies a pattern of abuse, attributing incidents to grief over 2023 losses and calling them accidental or playful.