2026 Mid-Term Elections

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Trump DOJ sues to block Alaska US Senate results if Republican incumbent loses

The Trump administration has preemptively filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of Alaska’s US Senate election if the Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan loses in the critical contest which could decide the balance of power in the Senate.

The lawsuit represents the latest attempt of the Trump Justice Department to insert itself in the administration of elections, running up against the minimal role the Constitution gives the Executive Branch. It alleges that a candidate named Daniel J. Sullivan could confuse voters and wants a court to potentially delay the certification of the election if the incumbent is defeated but would have won if “all votes cast for Daniel J. Sullivan” had “been cast instead for Senator Sullivan.”

President Donald Trump took credit for the legal challenge.

“Well, I’m the one that said ‘do it,’” Trump told reporters in Florida on Friday when asked about the lawsuit. The president has regularly complained about the presence of the non-incumbent Sullivan on the ballot.

In June, ahead of the state’s primary, the Alaska state Supreme Court ruled that Daniel J. Sullivan should be included on the ballot after the state’s Division of Elections had removed him.

Muller noted that Alaska election officials “went out of their way” to reduce voter confusion, by including on the ballot the candidates’ middle initials, identifying Dan S. Sullivan as the incumbent, and leaving off the GOP party designation of the other Daniel Sullivan.

“This is friendly fire, this is suing Republicans in Alaska, I don’t know that is going to be taken well by state officials,” Muller said.

^That's bad.

This, reported by the Alaska Beacon, is worse:

In numerous prior interviews, Dan J. Sullivan has said that his candidacy was motivated by dissatisfaction with Sen. Sullivan, and that he is not linked to the Democratic Party or Peltola’s campaign.

Democratic officials have said the same thing.

But that hasn’t stopped Trump and Sen. Sullivan — as well as other Republicans — from accusing both Peltola and Petersburg Sullivan of fraud.

Trump and other administration officials hinted throughout the summer and fall that they were working to bring a criminal case against Dan J. Sullivan.

And there's also this:

“I told him — I just shook his hand, took a picture — I said I hope you’re going to make sure there’s no cheating, because any place you have rank(ed) choice, you have damn bad cheating. And we can’t let that happen. So, we’re going to defend the integrity of Alaska’s elections,” Trump said at the Oct. 13 event.

The Republican Party has been trying to eliminate ranked choice voting in Alaska ever since it was adopted. They can't freeze out moderates anymore because nowadays the primaries are open instead of members-only and there are dozens of candidates on the primary ballot representing a much broader range of political stances. And Big Money can't buy elections as easily or as blatantly with the current provisions that require candidates to disclose where they got their campaign financing. That's why there is yet again a measure on the ballot to eliminate ranked-choice voting and why the GOP in Alaska is plastering the State with campaign signs to persuade voters to go back to the previous system where the Party leaders chose the candidates.

It's pretty obvious Trump is going to have his minions attempt to seize ballots and to stop the counting of mail-in ballots. And Senator Daniel S. Sullivan (Republican, incumbent) will kiss his ass and thank him for the election interference.

 

[crazyfingers]

The Department of InJustice is despicable. Blanche is despicable and Piece-O-Shit is completely evil.

 

[Ford]

The Department of InJustice is despicable. Blanche is despicable and Piece-O-Shit is completely evil.

I'd like to think we're approaching a "King Charles I of England" moment, but it appears we're headed towards more of an "end of the Roman Republic/start of the Empire" thing.

Not that I'm opposed to Trump meeting a bunch of people with sharp objects, but...