New York Times report alleges effort to recruit a second Dan Sullivan for Senate
The Times said the effort aimed to confuse voters and could split support in a race that may decide Senate control.
- On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola's campaign and Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee officials orchestrated a 'ballot composition project' to recruit Dan J. Sullivan, a namesake candidate, to challenge incumbent Republican Senator Dan S. Sullivan.
- Campaign aides initiated the effort in the summer of 2025 by searching voter rolls for residents named Dan Sullivan, then employed a Midwestern operative to clandestinely recruit the retired teacher to siphon incumbent support.
- Federal Election Commission records show a pro-Peltola super PAC paid approximately $87,000 to Wingspan Strategies, a firm co-owned by operative Jerid Kurtz, while internal text messages and documents corroborated the operation.
- President Donald Trump called the scheme 'voter fraud at the highest level' and demanded Peltola's withdrawal and prosecution, while his Justice Department filed a lawsuit seeking to block election certification if the namesake candidate's votes alter the outcome.
- Legal experts question the Justice Department's authority to intervene in state election certification, even as the federal case proceeds ahead of November 3, when voters will encounter both candidates named Sullivan on Alaska's ranked-choice ballot.
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Democrats Caught in Explosive Scandal
President Donald Trump is calling for the prosecution of Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola following explosive revelations about an alleged effort to manipulate the state’s upcoming election. The controversy centers on a reported Democratic strategy to recruit another candidate named Dan Sullivan, potentially confusing voters and weakening incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan’s chances of […]
‘Decoy Dan’ controversy raises questions about Democrats’ election integrity claims
Democrats have spent months arguing that requiring voters to prove their citizenship and identity would create unnecessary barriers to voting. Yet allegations surrounding Alaska’s 2026 Senate race have raised uncomfortable questions about the party’s commitment to fair elections. A reported Democratic effort to recruit a Republican candidate sharing the incumbent senator’s name appears designed to […]
According to polls, the US president is unpopular like never, even with some Republicans. In Alaska, therefore, the Democrat Mary Peltola could win – and Trump would cost the power in the Senate. However, a few days before the election, she makes a scandal.
New York Times Hands Trump A Hit Job On Mary Peltola
Republicans are worried about losing the Senate race in Alaska, a state President Donald Trump easily won by 13 percentage points in the 2024 election, so they are clinging to a shoddy story published in The New York Times. On Tuesday, the Times ran a story about the effort to place on Alaska’s ballot a Senate candidate named “Dan Sullivan,” a name that matches that of the state’s Republican senator who is running for reelection this year. The t…
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