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Ann Diener
Ann Diener (Democratic Party) is running for election to the U.S. Senate to represent Alaska. She declared candidacy for the 2026 election.[source]
Diener completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. Click here to read the survey answers.
Biography
Ann Diener was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado. She earned a bachelor's degree from San Diego State University in 1995. Her career experience includes working in advertising and as a project developer, entrepreneur, web developer, and waste water recycling and waste to energy systems designer. She has been affiliated with the Rotary and Fairbanks Chamber of Commerce.[1]
Elections
2026
See also: United States Senate election in Alaska, 2026
General election
The general election will occur on November 3, 2026.
General election for U.S. Senate Alaska
Incumbent Daniel S. Sullivan, Ann Diener, Dustin Darden, and Richard Grayson are running in the general election for U.S. Senate Alaska on November 3, 2026.
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 | Ann Diener (D)  | |
 | Dustin Darden (R) | |
 | Richard Grayson (G) | |
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Campaign themes
2026
Ballotpedia survey responses
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Ann Diener completed Ballotpedia's Candidate Connection survey in 2025. The survey questions appear in bold and are followed by Diener's responses. Candidates are asked three required questions for this survey, but they may answer additional optional questions as well.
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People are needed to work here, and we must build desirable communities in Alaskans to live in and enjoy. We have such a beautiful state and our travel and tourism industry should encourage positive growth.
We need to improve our state and encourage people to see that Alaska has a thriving future. This is something that is currently not happening, and it is time to elect someone with fresh eyes on the challenges we face. Coming from California, where we faced overdevelopment I stood against, I can work for Alaskans to encourage positive growth with constituents interest in mind. I will encourage direct communication and put your needs first. My goal is to engage everyone in an interactive way online, in person and over the phone.
As a US Senate member Alaskans come first and we want to understand one another to build strong healthy successful communities. Our strategic importance is significant globally, and I intend to work in foreign policy to create beneficial relationships with all nations to provide our citizens export opportunities to generate more success.- We can develop Alaska responsibly to encourage our own prosperity. We have huge resources here in our state that we can work with to bring new people here so we can fill all the vacant positions in our state. We must build and refurbish housing to provide adequately for employees. Build adequate roads and promote what we have more effectively and reduce heating and electrical costs with an all in approach. We can also grow crops and work more on establishing farms and agriculture throughout our state. Alaska Grown is delicious, and we need to expand this program to meet our food security needs. Many people in the lower 48 have no idea how many jobs we have here, how amazing our produce is and what we can do together.
- We need to work on the Dalton Highway to improve our ability to have full access and use of our state. In most other states, Americans and tourists can drive from one end to the other of their state. I have a plan to work on helping Alaskans and tourists to have full access and use if it is desirable to constituents. Militarily that also makes sense as roads are required to support ourselves. Imagine an Alaska that you can drive in the summer in your car from Fairbanks to Prudhoe Bay and then to Utiavik and then down to Anchorage. We can make this happen as the "haul road" now Dalton Highway only took 50 days to build when the pipeline was constructed, so the new LNG pipeline can help us to achieve the new road construction.
- I support a full extension of the Alaska Railroad to Alberta, Canada with a connector to the mining districts to assist in the ore haul and also to benefit the transport of US and Canadian goods to the port of Anchorage. Our Canadian partners can help us pay for it as they have a very big interest in having the rail extension themselves to reach our port here to move Canadian fuels, timber and other goods directly from Alaska bypassing Seattle. We can then expand the railroad to the northwest side to the Ambler mining district to assist in the ore haul in addition to putting a road into this very important region.
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Campaign finance summary
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See also
2026 Elections
External links
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Footnotes
- ↑ Information submitted to Ballotpedia through the Candidate Connection survey on January 18, 2025
