Mary Peltola at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage.
Posted on 10/29/2026 8:09:00 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
Democrats wanted to focus on Trump and high heating bills, but then came the October surprise
Mary Peltola at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference in Anchorage.
ANCHORAGE—As winter set in and Election Day neared in Alaska, high prices for diesel and home heating oil drove voter anger at President Trump and incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, making the Senate race in this red state one of the most competitive in the country.
Now, with just days to go, allegations that Democrat Mary Peltola’s campaign secretly worked to recruit a spoiler candidate to help her party win the pivotal Alaska seat—and potentially retake control of the Senate—has become this midterm election’s biggest October surprise.
For months, Republicans raged over the presence on the ballot of a retired teacher named Dan J. Sullivan Jr., who is one of four finalists for the Senate seat held by Dan S. Sullivan, potentially confusing voters. Trump directed the Justice Department last week to sue Alaska, seeking to delay the results if the incumbent narrowly loses.
Then the New York Times reported on Wednesday that staffers with Peltola’s campaign had worked with people to recruit the other Sullivan as a spoiler in the race—a strategy that her campaign had long denied. The state’s governor, Mike Dunleavy, a Republican, ordered an investigation as Trump amped up his attacks, calling for Peltola and the other Sullivan to be criminally prosecuted and tossed off the ballot.
Balloons at a campaign event for Sen. Dan Sullivan; Peltola's campaign hands out fans with her picture on them.
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The NYT report said it relied on 12 sources, text messages and documents that allegedly showed members of Peltola's campaign, lawyers for Peltola and senior aides at Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee contributed to pushing Dan J. Sullivan, a Republican on Alaska's four-way ballot, to run.
Decoy Dan is a Republican?!?
A bribed republican?
A cuck.
I am shocked that so far, the biggest october surprise is against a democrat instead of a republican.
And.
It came from The New York Times.
I cannot make it make sense. I can’t remember the last time it was like this. Every other election, its always october surprise eat the republicans. For the last like 15 elections, october surprises eat republicans.
Someone needs to chart this.
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