{"id":3776,"date":"2026-11-04T06:04:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-04T01:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3776"},"modified":"2026-11-04T06:04:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-04T01:04:06","slug":"alaskan-in-tight-senate-race-accuses-dems-of-election-cheating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=3776","title":{"rendered":"Alaskan in tight Senate race accuses Dems of ‘election cheating’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hours before polls closed Tuesday in US midterm elections, Alaska Republican Senator Dan Sullivan denounced what he called \u201celection cheating\u201d by Democrats, highlighting a scandal that has rocked the 49th state\u2019s midterm campaign.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sullivan has accused the campaign apparatus of his Democratic rival Mary Peltola of recruiting a man with the same name as the Republican lawmaker to be a \u201cdecoy\u201d candidate.<\/p>\n

Despite the uproar, retired schoolteacher Daniel J. Sullivan\u2019s name has remained on ballots.<\/p>\n

Senator Sullivan, who is endorsed by US President Donald Trump, lashed out at his rival on Election Day.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy opponent\u2019s campaign is literally focused on misleading Alaskans, lying, and cheating,\u201d the 61-year-old told reporters in Anchorage, Alaska\u2019s most populous city.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are witnessing the biggest election cheating scandal in the history of the state of Alaska \u2013 maybe one of the biggest in the US Senate\u2019s history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Peltola has denied any knowledge of the decoy candidate plot.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey are running scared. They got nothing,\u201d she said at a campaign event, according to a video posted Tuesday to her X account. She did not mention the scandal in the clip.<\/p>\n

Polls show her and the senator essentially tied in a race that may well decide which US political party holds the majority in the Senate.<\/p>\n

Should Sullivan lose, it could pave the way for Democrats to place a dramatic check on Trump\u2019s power in Washington.<\/p>\n

Last week The New York Times<\/em> published a detailed account which claimed that Peltola\u2019s campaign helped orchestrate the decoy candidate scheme, which Senator Sullivan said was designed to siphon votes away from the incumbent.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnfortunately, the scheme is working,\u201d he said. \u201cThousands, likely, of Alaskans are going to mistakenly throw away their vote.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump, fuming over the mischief, has sought to preemptively challenge Alaska\u2019s election results. The effort was rejected by a federal judge.<\/p>\n

After casting his ballot in Anchorage, Sullivan said he was prepared to accept defeat if that\u2019s what the results show, \u201conce every legal vote is counted and certified.\u201d<\/p>\n

But he believed the scandal, and how it has angered voters, could actually work in his favour.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think it drives turnout,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Federal authorities have launched a criminal investigation into the matter.<\/p>\n

According to The Washington Post,<\/em> the US Department of Justice has sent some 20 target letters in connection with the probe, including to a Democratic elections lawyer whose firm is said to represent Peltola.<\/p>\n

Sullivan declined to discuss any potential criminal implications.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ll let the lawyers and the prosecutors and the FBI make those determinations,\u201d Sullivan said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hours before polls closed Tuesday in US midterm elections, Alaska Republican Senator Dan Sullivan denounced what he called \u201celection cheating\u201d by Democrats, highlighting a scandal that has rocked the 49th state\u2019s midterm campaign. Sullivan has accused the campaign apparatus of his Democratic rival Mary Peltola of recruiting a man with the same name as the Republican lawmaker to be a \u201cdecoy\u201d candidate. Despite the uproar, retired schoolteacher Daniel J. Sullivan\u2019s name has remained on ballots. Senator Sullivan, who is endorsed by US President Donald Trump, lashed out at his rival…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3776\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}