Forrest Dunbar came the closest to ousting current U.S. Congressman Don Young since Ethan Berkowitz gained 45% in 2008.
After Tuesday night’s election, Dunbar conceded to Young after garnering 40% of Alaska’s vote.
Dunbar: “Overall I feel very positively, I feel like we ran a good campaign, I was honored to get the chance to go all over Alaska and meet the people and see the things I got to see and the result, while it wasn’t victorious, I thought it was still very positive considering how much we were outspent.”
He said that the thing that surprised him most was the media not requesting Young to participate in more debates.
Dunbar: “I thought there would be something more similar to the governor’s race or the senate race in terms of the many many debates that happened, so I guess I was expecting the media would cover the race a little more than they did which was a little bit surprising, but you know all things considered, I still think it turned out fairly well and the next time whether it’s me or someone else running against Congressman Young, people will realize that there’s an opportunity there to get much closer than they thought and there will be more coverage.”
Dunbar said currently he is just working on getting a post campaign job and will not make any political decision announcements before the end of this year.