Analysis: Alaska Democrats played into Trump’s hands with Dan Sullivan ballot-stacking effort | CNN Politics
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The president seized on a storm unleashed by a report that Democrats aligned with Senate candidate Mary Peltola tried to confuse voters in her fight against incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan by recruiting a second candidate with the same name.
Mary Peltola speaks at a forum during the Alaska Oil & Gas Association annual conference in Anchorage, Alaska, on August 27.
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Alaska Democrats gave Donald Trump exactly what he wanted.
The president seized on a storm unleashed by a report that Democrats aligned with Senate candidate Mary Peltola tried to confuse voters in her fight against incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan by recruiting a second candidate with the same name.
In a grim election season for Republicans, the New York Times bombshell created a rare chance Wednesday to turn the midterm election narrative away from Trump’s woeful approval ratings, high gasoline prices and the unpopular Iran war.
