President Donald Trump is weighing in on the weird Republican major in Alaska, the place a challenger with the identical identify as sitting senator Dan Sullivan is on the poll, sparking confusion and accusations of “trickery” by Democrats within the race for the essential seat.
Voters head to the polls on Tuesday for Alaska’s major elections, the place the Senate race is taken into account crucial in figuring out the stability of energy in Congress. Democrats are hoping to flip the seat with former Democratic Rep. Mary Peltola, who turned the primary indigenous member of Congress and first lady to carry Alaska’s at-large Home seat in 2022.
“Due to the trickery within the Voting, the Crooked, Radical Left Dumocrats have put up one other man named ‘Dan Sullivan,’ they usually did this to take Votes away from our Nice Senator of the identical identify. Democrats are attempting to ‘trick’ Alaskans, and deal with Alaskan Voters with contempt,” Trump posted Friday to his social media platform.
The Alaska Democratic Get together and Peltola’s marketing campaign informed ABC Information they don’t have any involvement or affiliation with both Dan Sullivan.
The president then pasted a screenshot of the pattern poll that was beforehand shared by the Alaska Division of Elections, with Trump differentiating the incumbent senator by marking his identify with a inexperienced verify and a “Trump-endorsed” marker.
Dan J. Sullivan, a candidate in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race who shares a reputation with the incumbent searching for reelection, talks in entrance of a welcome signal close to downtown Petersburg, Alaska, on July 3, 2026.
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Dan J. Sullivan is a retired fifth-grade trainer who describes himself as a realistic Republican. However two-term incumbent Alaska GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan calls him a “sham” candidate, claiming his candidacy is meant to confuse voters — one thing that Democrats and Dan J. Sullivan deny.
“I’ve each proper to face up and do that,” Dan J. Sullivan stated in an interview with the Petersburg Pilot newspaper earlier this summer season. “It is my identify, my grandfather’s identify: Dan Sullivan. My dad’s identify: Dan Sullivan.”
Dan J. Sullivan’s candidacy has resulted in complaints from Republicans, in addition to authorized motion and a DOJ investigation. In late June, the Alaska Supreme Court docket upheld a decrease court docket order that permits Dan J. Sullivan to stay on the state’s U.S. Senate poll.
Trump reiterated his endorsement of Sen. Dan S. Sullivan in his Friday submit, calling him a “GREAT man” and a “very distinguished and Extremely Revered Senator.”
“‘SULLIVAN, DAN S’ has my Full and Complete Endorsement for Re-Election – HE WILL NOT LET YOU DOWN!” Trump added.
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, arrives to a lunch with Senate Republicans on the U.S. Capitol constructing on August 6, 2026, in Washington, D.C.
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The highest 4 candidates in Alaska’s nonpartisan major advance to the final election underneath ranked-choice voting, no matter political social gathering. This implies it’s doable for each Dan Sullivans to be on the poll in November.
Trump has additionally repeatedly railed towards Alaska’s voting system, saying in April that ranked-choice voting is “ONE OF THE GREATEST THREATS TO DEMOCRACY” and urging Alaskans to help efforts to repeal the apply.
