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Alaska Sen. Sullivan warns alleged ‘Decoy Dan’ scheme is working: ‘I’m going to lose a lot of votes to that trickery’
New York Post ^ | November 1, 2026 | Ryan King

Posted on 11/01/2026 5:27:09 PM PST by MinorityRepublican

Incumbent Alaska Sen. Dan S. Sullivan on Sunday warned that the alleged scheme by allies of Dem rival Mary Peltola to recruit another Dan Sullivan onto the ballot “is working” and confusing voters.

“Their first order of business, like I said, is, ‘How can we trick people in Alaska so they can throw the vote in a way that’s certainly deceitful, if not illegal, towards Peltola?'” the Republican senator vented to CNN’s “State of the Union.”

“By the way, their scheme is working,” he said. “They got the decoy guy on the ballot. I’m sure I’m going to lose a lot of votes to that trickery.”

Peltola, a former congresswoman, has been slammed by bombshell revelations from the New York Times that her allies worked to recruit retired public-school teacher Dan J. Sullivan, now known as “Decoy Dan,” to run for the Senate seat, too.

Although she has denied involvement, the outlet quoted her former campaign manager, Elisa Rios, who claimed Peltola was “definitely aware.”

Rios had been pushed out of the campaign during an August reshuffling, along with other top staff.

“Decoy Dan” is registered as a Republican, despite voting Democrat in recent presidential election cycles and reportedly having a magnet of far-left revolutionary Che Guevara on his refrigerator.

For months, both “Decoy Dan” and Peltola’s camp had denied a connection between her team and his decision to run, but the outlet also found other staffers on her old campaign operation and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee and text messages to identify a connection.

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TOPICS: Politics
KEYWORDS: dansullivan; decoydan

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1 posted on 11/01/2026 5:27:09 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: MinorityRepublican

I don’t think so. He’s probably playing it safe by playing the panic factor. I can’t see why Alaskans would allow themselves to be taken as chumps but then wha’ do I know?


2 posted on 11/01/2026 5:34:03 PM PST by DIRTYSECRET
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To: MinorityRepublican

3 posted on 11/01/2026 5:37:53 PM PST by Libloather (Why do climate change hoax deniers live in mansions on the beach?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

If his election team didn’t blanket the state with the ballot and which one to vote for that’s on him. Tell me the ballot doesn’t have his middle initial on it?

You bet this is dirty tricks but we either have a electorate that knows how to vote or we don’t.


4 posted on 11/01/2026 6:01:31 PM PST by Skywise
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To: Skywise

Dirty tricks are nothing to Demonicrats, who are lying, perverted, murdering traitors.


5 posted on 11/01/2026 6:06:50 PM PST by Carl Vehse
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To: MinorityRepublican

Imagine the Republicans taking a page from the “Decoy Dan” playbook two years from now. Further imagine the reaction by the Democrats if the ‘Pubs actually pull off a similar stunt. “That’s not fair!”

I can dream, can’t I?


6 posted on 11/01/2026 6:14:23 PM PST by asinclair (Indict DNC for RICO?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

THEY ALREADY SUCCEEDED WITH THE FAKE AMERICAN BORN IN KENYA


7 posted on 11/01/2026 6:26:05 PM PST by ridesthemiles (not giving up on TRUMP---EVER)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He complained about it directly on CNN, yet tonight I heard the witch host on CNN say the republican candidate had said it was just fine and he isn’t complaining.

Incredible.


8 posted on 11/01/2026 6:44:58 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

He complained about it directly on CNN, yet tonight I heard the witch host on CNN say the republican candidate had said it was just fine and he isn’t complaining.

Incredible.


9 posted on 11/01/2026 6:44:59 PM PST by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Libloather
The Alaskan GOP had months of heads-up to send out sample ballot mail-outs to voters as to where the real Sullivan was listed on the ballot and with instructions for voting.

They did not do this.

Even internet adds could have given out these instructions.

They did not do this.

10 posted on 11/01/2026 6:52:31 PM PST by Deaf Smith (When a Texan takes his chances, chances will be taken that's for sure.)
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To: Skywise; All

Since you want to put so much on the electorate and say they should know their part in voting, then at least you could call what the Dems did for what it truly is.

It’s not a “dirty trick”, its selfish power hungry calculated evil minded people not caring who or however many people they deceive and manipulate to get what they want. And should they succeed they will rejoice in their evil doing. These are the sort of people we walk amongst and have to some degree controlling aspects of our lives.

The fact Ilhan, this Peltola woman, the guy in Michigan, mamdani, rasidha, aoc, Pelosi, schumer, obama, so many others past and present, could just trample our constitution and be so uncaring for US Citizens as to conjure up all these ways of cheating and stealing and destroying fellow US Citizens lives by their actions (how many thousands have been killed, millions harmed in many ways by them, even just in recent decades?)....they are not “dirty trick(s)” like pranks kids play. They have given their minds and hearts to evil, and evil has devoured them.

The fact Alaska made decoy Dan have his legal middle initial instead of the fake one he originally wanted to use to exactly match the incumbent doesn’t really count much into the truth that they are evil and will not stop their march toward their evil intentions to destroy USA completely.

Some are doing it in the name of socialism, communism, islam, marxism but it is all done in love/god of themselves, and hate for God and fellow man.


11 posted on 11/01/2026 7:48:56 PM PST by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: Libloather

I always tell them “no thanks” for the stickers. I’m not 5 years old.


12 posted on 11/01/2026 9:26:55 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: MinorityRepublican

I can recall in the Distinguished Gentleman Eddie Murphy won after the (R) died because he shared the same name and they used the saying “Jeff Johnson the name you know”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO3PpLCJ7yw


13 posted on 11/01/2026 10:05:13 PM PST by Zack Attack
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To: Libloather


What's the message here? That Trump and MAGA are both convinced that the American people REALLY can't tell the difference between two people based on THAT being on the sheet?! C'mon.

Mind you, that doesn't sound quite so outlandish given that some election officials are even having to write to "concerned" or outraged members of the public to explain why the name Donald J Trump is not a candidate on the midterms election ballot... All because POTUS said "pretend I'm on the ballot". Never mind a lack of understanding of elementary civics; some people clearly don't even understand what the word "pretend" means.

This whole farce of trying to pretend that there is something seriously nefarious going on by having two Dan Sullivans on the same sheet despite making it abundantly obvious which one's which, is effectively sending a message around the globe that even the American right considers the American right to be totally retarded.
14 posted on 11/02/2026 3:08:46 AM PST by MalPearce ("You see, but you do not observe" - Holmes to Watson)
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To: Carl Vehse
Democrats are vile, evil and shameless. Only they could have dreamt this one up.

Their willingness to get power knows no bounds, and they are relentless in those efforts.

15 posted on 11/02/2026 3:18:01 AM PST by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. he)
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To: MinorityRepublican

I’ve already voted where I’m at and yes many voters are idiots but the ballots here clearly state Republican or Democrat and have (Incumbent) beside which ever one is.

How hard is that?


16 posted on 11/02/2026 3:22:08 AM PST by maddog55 (The only thing systemic in America is the left's hatred of it!)
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