JUNEAU, Alaska – Al Gross commands a fishing boat as a narrator describes him prospecting for gold and killing a grizzly bear in self-defense in an ad meant to underscore a central theme of Gross' U.S.
Senate campaign as an independent: that he knows Alaska.“Out here," he says as the boat rocks on the water, “if you can’t think for yourself, you won’t survive.” Gross, a doctor running with Democratic support, is challenging Republican U.S.
Sen. Dan Sullivan in a state that has long been a GOP stronghold, outraising Sullivan and putting Republicans on the defensive.