Sen.Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, told Fox News that Democrats will do "anything" to gain power while addressing reports that the campaign of his Democratic challenger Mary Peltola secretly participated in a months-long process to recruit people with his name to run in the Alaska U.S.
Senate race.The New York Times reported Wednesday that Peltola’s campaign, as well as senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, carried out the alleged election scheme in hopes that voters would be confused by two Dan Sullivans and therefore draw support from the incumbent Republican senator."This is a scandal at the highest order," Sen.Sullivan said during an interview on "Hannity" Wednesday."She and her team, and at the highest levels of the DSCC, spent over a year scheming in a secret operation to trick Alaskans to get them to throw away their vote," Sullivan said.
"It's remarkable.The Democrats will do anything to gain power."MARY PELTOLA'S CAMPAIGN, DEMS BACKED COVERT SCHEME TO FIELD SPOILER CANDIDATES IN ALASKA SENATE RACE: REPORTThe Justice Department is moving to delay certification of Alaska’s U.S.
Senate election results since two individuals by the name of Dan Sullivan appear alongside each other on the ballot.(Sullivan for U.S.
Senate; Nathaniel Wilder/Bloomberg via Getty Images; Brandon Bell-Pool/Getty Images)The Justice Department is moving to delay certification of Alaska’s U.S.Senate election results since two individuals by the name of Dan Sullivan appear alongside each other on the ballot.
Listed on the ballot as "Sullivan, Dan S.," is the state’s incumbent U.S.senator, while "Sullivan, Daniel J.
Jr.," is a retired schoolteacher.SCHIFF ACCUSES DOJ OF TRYING TO 'SUBVERT' ELECTIONS AS GOP ALLEGES SAME-NAME CANDIDATE MEANT TO CONFUSE VOTERS"They've been lying for almost a year about it, and now they're caught," Sullivan told Fox News host Sean Hannity.Peltola has dismissed reports of the alleged election scheme as "just another distraction," a...