EXCLUSIVE — CBS News editor-in-chief Bari Weiss faced "significant resistance" from staff at Thursday's 9 a.m.meeting about the growing Alaska ballot controversy, network insiders told Fox News Digital."This is a scandal," Weiss declared to staff.According to multiple sources on the call, several CBS News staffers pushed back at Weiss' enthusiasm over the bombshell New York Times report alleging Democrats schemed to find a Dan Sullivan to run against incumbent Republican Sen.
Dan Sullivan, in hopes of aiding Democratic opponent Mary Peltola.DEM STRATEGIST SHRUGS OFF ALASKA BALLOT SCANDAL ON MS NOW, INSISTS 'THIS STUFF HAPPENS ALL THE TIME'Many on the call shrugged it off as routine politics and said that Republicans have also engaged in similar scheming.When Weiss asked for other examples of ballot confusion, "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan reportedly pointed to New Hampshire Senate candidate John Sununu, suggesting that midterm voters might confuse him with his brother, former Governor Chris Sununu.ALASKA'S GOVERNOR ODERS INVESTIGATION AFTER NYT REPORT ON ALLEGED DEM-LINKED SENATE ELECTION SCHEME"Face The Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan allegedly suggested that Republican New Hampshire Senate candidate John Sununu may cause ballot confusion among voters thinking his brother, former New Hampshire Gov.Chris Sununu, was running in that race.
(Sophia Park/Getty Images; Jon Cherry/Getty Images for Concordia)CBS News political correspondent Ed O'Keefe also insisted that such tactics are nothing new.Earlier that morning, during his appearance on "CBS Mornings", O'Keefe stressed to viewers that what happened in Alaska "could be a dirty trick, but it's not illegal," adding that "this has happened before, kind of." He pointed to the 2016 Alaska Senate race when former Anchorage mayor Dan Sullivan — no relation to the U.S.
Senator of the same name — briefly ran against incumbent Sen.Lisa Murkowski in the GOP primary, hoping "name recognition" of the ...