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Katie Zacharia, who briefly served as White House press secretary last month, repeatedly redirected questions about the 2026 midterm election results during an interview on the BBC’s “Newsnight,” focusing instead on an ongoing Senate race in Alaska.
During the interview, presenter Victoria Derbyshire asked Zacharia about statements made by President Donald Trump following election losses that handed control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate to Democrats.
Derbyshire noted that Trump had initially expressed a desire to work with congressional Democrats before raising concerns about election integrity days later.
In response, Zacharia raised questions about the Senate contest in Alaska, where the Republican incumbent, Senator Dan Sullivan, faces a challenge from Mary Peltola, a Democrat, as well as an independent candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan.
"Do you think that Dan Sullivan in Alaska is fair?" Zacharia asked.
Derbyshire questioned why Vice President JD Vance did not cite the Alaska contest in a recent social media post attributing the Republican Party’s midterms performance to the war in Iran.
"Why didn’t JD Vance mention the Sullivans and Alaska?" Derbyshire asked.
