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Alaska Senate race roiled by decoy candidate with same name as Dan Sullivan
A man named Dan J. Sullivan is running as a candidate against Alaska's incumbent Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, and the race is drawing scrutiny over the identical names.[4] The New York Times reported that Democratic Party operatives helped to add Dan J. Sullivan to the ballot as a spoiler, according to RealClearPolitics.[4]
An FEC complaint alleges the decoy's campaign illegally colluded with a dark-money group that ran ads against Sen. Dan Sullivan, as Conservative Review and The Federalist report.[3, 5] Sen. Dan Sullivan said in June that a Democrat-manufactured plot was underway to confuse voters with a same-name candidate, months before concrete action was taken, Breitbart reported.[2]
Covered by Mediaite, Breitbart, Conservative Review and 2 more
Read first Alaska Republican Immediately Stresses Out He Might’ve Voted for the ‘Decoy’ Dan Sullivan
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Of the 5 rated outlets that covered it, 0 are left of center, 1 is center and 4 are right of center (3 of them in the Right group).
- Left: none.
- Leans left: none.
- Center: Mediaite (+0.04).
- Leans right: RealClearPolitics (+0.87).
- Right: Breitbart (+2.03), The Federalist (+2.13), Conservative Review (+2.76).
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- Left-leaning No left-leaning outlet in Tare's list covered it.
- Center Alaska Republican Immediately Stresses Out He Might’ve Voted for the ‘Decoy’ Dan Sullivan
- Right-leaning Alaska Town Reckons With 'Decoy Dan' Election Fallout