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00:02:14.840 The head of Alaskan Elections has made very clear that this candidate's only purpose is to confuse voters.
00:02:21.040 And so what do you think the Department of Justice should do when there is a head of election,
00:02:25.420 there's a federal system in place, there's laws in place that allow us to step in
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00:02:52.560 There's two Dan Sullivans on the ballot.
00:02:55.240 Now we're learning that Democrats recruited another Dan Sullivan
00:02:59.060 just to deceive the voters of Alaska.
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00:04:37.740 Story number one.
00:04:39.040 I want to go into election cheating.
00:04:42.140 It has been a theme the last several elections,
00:04:44.560 and now we have a very big controversy out of Alaska.
00:04:49.300 Now, I want you to understand exactly what is being alleged
00:04:51.900 because this story raises some extraordinary questions
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00:04:57.820 are willing to go to alter or change an American election.
00:05:02.880 Now, we're less than a week away from Election Day.
00:05:05.660 Control of the United States Senate is absolutely on the line.
00:05:09.200 You've heard President Donald Trump talk about that everywhere he's been doing a rally.
00:05:13.180 But now an explosive investigation done by the New York Times has uncovered evidence of what is being described as a coordinated effort involving Democratic political operatives to deliberately manipulate the field of candidates in the Alaska Senate race.
00:05:33.060 And here's the part that sounds almost unbelievable.
00:05:36.980 The plan allegedly involved recruiting another man named Dan Sullivan to run against the Republican senator named Dan Sullivan.
00:05:47.960 Yes, you heard that correctly.
00:05:50.000 Not a candidate with a similar political philosophy, not somebody with an established statewide political organization.
00:05:57.500 All they wanted was a man with essentially the same name.
00:06:01.240 That was the only qualifier.
00:06:03.060 As the incumbent United States senator to basically trick the voters.
00:06:09.220 And according to the reporting, that wasn't some remarkable coincidence either.
00:06:14.220 The name was the entire point.
00:06:18.180 Now, the objective was to create confusion among voters on Election Day and potentially take votes away from the Republican incumbent senator from Alaska.
00:06:28.420 Now, if you think about the implications of that, it's shocking.
00:06:31.880 The Democratic Party, instead of simply persuading voters that your candidate has better ideas,
00:06:38.660 their strategy was to introduce another candidate whose name would directly match the Republican incumbent
00:06:45.480 and then cause you to make a mistake and vote for the wrong person with the same name of Dan Sullivan.
00:06:54.280 Now, this came to a head earlier this week on Sunday on Save the Union
00:07:01.440 when Dana Bash was interviewing the Attorney General Todd Blanche.
00:07:05.060 And I want you to hear what Todd Blanche had to say to CNN
00:07:07.900 as he was calling them out on their reporting and their hypocrisy on this story
00:07:13.200 as the DOJ sues to block Alaska's Senate results if the Republican loses.
00:07:19.640 ...state Supreme Court, and they ruled four months ago on this matter.
00:07:23.360 They said that Daniel J. Sullivan Jr. could remain on the ballot.
00:07:28.240 Well, conveniently, you put up the Constitution on your screen, but you highlighted only the first clause.
00:07:33.580 Why don't you show the next clause to your viewers, which says that Congress is allowed to pass laws to make sure that that happens?
00:07:39.580 Put that back up there.
00:07:40.640 And that's exactly what we're doing.
00:07:42.280 So the Alaska Supreme Court did not address the federal law that's implied.
00:07:47.700 We have it up.
00:07:48.020 And that is what we are doing now.
00:07:49.560 So, OK, so but look, so you highlighted the first clause.
00:07:52.760 The second clause says, but the Congress may at any time by law.
00:07:56.400 And we have a law.
00:07:57.420 And that's the law that we're relying on when we when we filed suit earlier this week.
00:08:01.960 So this is about taking away the rights of a well, that's not what that's what is so-called mean.
00:08:07.780 That's not what the law is called. The law is a voter registration act.
00:08:10.400 I mean, so go ahead. Go ahead. No, you go.
00:08:12.700 No, but what we're doing, what we're doing, the Alaska Supreme Court has said that under Alaskan law, this second Sullivan can can run.
00:08:21.280 That's because, unlike many states, Alaska doesn't have a statute or a law that says that the same name can't run.
00:08:27.920 But make no mistake about it, the head of Alaskan elections has made very clear that this candidate's only purpose is to confuse voters.
00:08:35.480 And so what do you think the Department of Justice should do when there's a federal system in place,
00:08:41.380 there's laws in place that allow us to step in if constitutional rights and statutory rights are potentially being violated in the election process?
00:08:49.020 We don't do it very often, but can you name a single time in our history where this has happened at a Senate race?
00:08:55.280 No, it's happened in local races before.
00:08:57.420 It's happened in local races before, not in Senate races like this.
00:09:02.560 So, again, you go back to the strategy here.
00:09:05.460 The Democratic Party is not saying we have better ideas.
00:09:07.720 They're saying we just want to steal votes by introducing another candidate whose name would cause voters to make a mistake on their ballot.
00:09:15.440 And then that brings us to the second part of this story.
00:09:19.780 In this shocking report that has come out from the New York Times,
00:09:24.020 they have now explained exactly how this happened,
00:09:29.120 where you have a Dan Sullivan and a Daniel J. Sullivan on the ballot.
00:09:35.040 And how we got to this point, we now know it was the Democratic operatives
00:09:38.580 and the candidate knew about it and apparently was lying about it.
00:09:42.620 Yes, the Democrats shockingly lied.
00:09:44.820 here's how CBS News had it on their nightly newscast about this shocking investigative
00:09:52.400 report from the New York Times with that bombshell new report alleging that Democrats launched a
00:09:57.760 scheme to confuse voters in a race that could determine the balance of power in Washington
00:10:02.320 it's that Senate race in Alaska where Democrat Mary Peltola is running against a Republican
00:10:07.760 incumbent Dan Sullivan but there's a second Dan Sullivan on the ballot and now the New York Times
00:10:13.380 is reporting Peltola's campaign was behind an effort to recruit that other Dan Sullivan as a
00:10:20.400 spoiler and that the candidate herself was aware. Senior White House and political correspondent
00:10:25.360 Ed O'Keefe is here with the latest. Ed, good evening. There's a lot here. There is, Tony,
00:10:28.560 and it's important because Alaska's Senate race is one of the 10 competitive battleground races
00:10:33.000 that will determine the balance of power in the U.S. Senate. Tonight's revelations have both
00:10:37.340 parties pointing fingers at each other. Tonight, the Alaska Senate race between Republican incumbent
00:10:43.080 Dan Sullivan and Democratic candidate Mary Peltola is drawing fresh scrutiny because of
00:10:48.000 a third candidate on the ballot, an independent, also named Dan Sullivan. Election security really
00:10:54.100 is the key to fighting D.C. corruption. The New York Times reports aides to Peltola helped recruit
00:11:00.360 the other Dan Sullivan in hopes of confusing voters on the state's ballot and helping her
00:11:04.580 secure the win. President Trump called it a fraud on the American public and said Peltola shouldn't 0.87
00:11:10.460 be allowed to run they should be taken off the ballot and number two they should be prosecuted
00:11:15.520 the peltola campaign repeatedly denies any involvement in either sullivan candidacy
00:11:21.320 but the times reports a staffer for peltola was asked in the summer of 2025 to find as many people
00:11:27.660 named dan sullivan as you can they ended up settling on dan j sullivan a retired teacher
00:11:33.080 from a small fishing village with little political experience he couldn't immediately be reached for
00:11:38.220 comment but previously told the times he had no contact with peltola's campaign all of a sudden
00:11:44.020 he decides to run for the senate and his name is dan sullivan trump admitted last week he ordered
00:11:50.080 the justice department to ask a federal court to block certification of the race in the event the
00:11:54.780 sitting senator dan sullivan loses i feel like this is yet another diversion from the issue that
00:12:02.600 alaskans want to talk about which is affordability the peltola campaign doesn't deny the reports
00:12:08.300 they helped recruit the other dan sullivan but says it has no involvement with either sullivan
00:12:12.880 campaign we should point out recruiting third-party contenders to confuse voters is done by both
00:12:17.540 parties and is not illegal i love at the very end there how cbs like by the way it's done by both
00:12:23.520 parties okay give me another example where a in a senate race a republican has recruited another
00:12:29.420 person by the same name of the democrat to deliberately mislead the voters i'm waiting
00:12:34.860 i i really am cbs like i i really really want to know i i love it like by the way this isn't
00:12:40.860 illegal it's just it's just super scumbaggery by the way that's not the only one that's trying
00:12:46.460 to downplay but also report the story on abc news they tried to mitigate the damaging new
00:12:52.880 Times report on the Democratic Alaska Senate deception by repeating the denial verbatim
00:12:59.840 from the Democratic candidate by offering deception, saying it isn't illegal, and
00:13:06.620 subsequently by bracketing with, you know, some other information. Listen carefully to their
00:13:12.940 chosen words. With Election Day less than a week off tonight, President Trump heading to Ohio,
00:13:18.720 his third campaign visit to this crucial red state battleground but heading out the president's
00:13:24.240 attention focused on an explosive story rocking another key senate contest reports of underhanded
00:13:30.320 tactics by democrats up in alaska it's a fraud and they said they didn't do it and they did do it and
00:13:35.760 they got caught the alaska senate race pits republican senator dan sullivan against former
00:13:40.640 congresswoman mary peltola a democrat but there is another dan sullivan on the ballot daniel j
00:13:47.200 Sullivan, a retired teacher. Tonight, the New York Times reports this second Dan Sullivan
00:13:52.140 was recruited by Peltola's campaign in an effort to confuse voters. The Democratic operatives
00:13:58.460 scoured Alaska, searching for a candidate with the same name as the Republican senator,
00:14:02.920 and they found one. Peltola has sidestepped questions about whether her campaign
00:14:07.860 engaged in dirty tricks. What is your response to the GOP and those accusations?
00:14:12.900 You know, there's always political theater and shenanigans that seems like are going on every election cycle.
00:14:21.620 Her campaign now says it has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign.
00:14:26.880 Tonight, Alaska Senator Lisa Murkowski blunt, quote,
00:14:30.120 recruiting candidates to manipulate the field and influence voting outcomes is simply wrong.
00:14:35.800 Adding Alaskans deserve the honest truth from Mary and her campaign.
00:14:40.640 Legal experts tell us that recruiting spoiler candidates is not in itself illegal.
00:14:45.180 But the Justice Department has already filed suit to block certification of Alaska's election results if Senator Sullivan loses.
00:14:53.120 By the way, you listen to this story and I go back to the core point here.
00:14:58.480 They say she has a denial, right?
00:15:01.220 I'm not working with either Sullivan campaign.
00:15:04.540 Why would you at this point?
00:15:05.960 All you needed was that guy to run.
00:15:08.260 and once he was on the ballot then that was mission accomplished notice she didn't say i
00:15:15.640 had nothing to do with this notice she doesn't say that her campaign had nothing to do with this
00:15:21.160 notice nothing was said like not a single thing was said at all to give you anything that would
00:15:29.260 make you believe for even a moment that she wasn't involved because of course her and her campaign
00:15:35.300 we're involved. Everybody clearly knows it now. That's what the reporting is here. It's obvious
00:15:39.240 what is going on here. There's one other thing. You notice there's no ideas here, right? None.
00:15:46.820 It's not a single idea. There is nothing here at all that is actually about the future of the
00:15:55.780 people of Alaska. It's not about better schools. It's not about better jobs. It's not about the
00:16:00.680 economy it's not about taxes it's not about anything they're literally saying we don't
00:16:05.120 believe we can win our ideas so what we're going to do is we're going to try to we're going to try
00:16:08.680 to manipulate and steal an election by having people accidentally vote for the wrong dan sullivan
00:16:14.260 that is what they're offering to the people of alaska and if you think that they're not going
00:16:20.140 to keep trying to do things like this you're not paying attention they will lie steal and cheat
00:16:24.160 anywhere they can get away with it including things like this and this is exactly why the
00:16:29.560 reason why the president had to go all the way to alaska and campaign in alaska because you have a
00:16:35.500 fake dan sullivan on the ballot that was recruited and grabbed by the democrats and the person who's
00:16:42.840 now saying oh i don't have any contact with his campaign you don't need it all you needed to get
00:16:48.020 his name on the ballot and then you could walk away and go no i'm just sitting over here running 0.99
00:16:52.300 for senate that's how much of a scumbag group of people these democrats are and they lied about 0.93
00:16:58.700 their involvement and now they've been busted thank you for listening to the 47 morning update 0.97
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