An Associated Press article on HuffPost reports that former state lawmaker Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins won Alaska's 2026 gubernatorial race, the first Democrat elected governor there since 1998, defeating three Republicans including Trump-endorsed Bernadette Wilson amid a national midterm wave that will put Democrats in 30 governor's offices. The article says he campaigned on affordability, school funding, oil and gas taxes, and a ferry system he called shambles, and vowed to work across party lines with an independent lieutenant governor, Zac Johnson, after endorsements from Sen. Lisa Murkowski and three former governors.