The Dan Sullivan saga in the Alaska Senate race is under investigation, sources say

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: NBC News

July 2, 2026, 2:19 PM EDT


State and federal prosecutors in Alaska are investigating whether the campaign for a U.S. Senate candidate who has the same name as the Republican incumbent could be part of a conspiracy to confuse voters, two people with knowledge of the investigations told NBC News.

Dan J. Sullivan, a former teacher, announced his campaign in May and recently registered as a Republican. He has said he’s mounting a legitimate effort to unseat the other Sullivan, Dan S. Sullivan, who has been in office since 2015. But Sen. Dan S. Sullivan and Republicans have alleged that the newcomer launched the campaign in an attempt to confuse voters and that he’s working with the Democratic challenger Mary Peltola.

Just this week, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled that Dan J. Sullivan can stay on the state’s August primary ballot. The state’s elections division had initially disqualified the challenger from the ballot, with Elections Director Carol Beecher alleging that the challenger filed to run “with a purpose to confuse or mislead” voters.

Now, NBC News has learned, the FBI, the Alaska attorney general and the U.S. attorney’s office in Alaska are all investigating whether two or more people conspired to create the Sullivan challenger’s campaign with the intention to confuse voters, hurt the incumbent and boost votes for Peltola. It is possible that both the Sullivans and Peltola could all be on the November ballot, since the top four vote-getters in the Aug. 18 primary advances to the general election, regardless of party affiliation. The general election contest is then decided by ranked-choice voting.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2026-election/dan-sullivan-saga-alaska-senate-race-investigation-sources-say-rcna352679

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GOP election interference.

REFERENCE - https://www.democraticunderground.com/10143686790

[Lovie777]

1. F.B.I, enough said.................

all are probably incompetent, following any conspiracy theories like so called Judge Piro in D.C.

enough already. Dan Sullivan is a common name. Damn.

[onenote]

2. If trying to confuse voters was a federal crime, the prisons would be full of Republican officeholders.

[SamuelAdams]

3. This is ridiculous.

There have been multiple instances of Republicans running, pretending to be Democrats. We had to accept it. As far as I know, there is no law about reasons you're allowed to run for office. Dan Sullivan is a common name. He didn't change it to make this run. The ballot lists the current senator as the incumbent.

[kurtyboy]

6. The current Senator won in 2014, in part

...because his name was the same as a popular politician who was not running for senate, Mayor Dan Sullivan of Anchorage (2009-2015). The IRONY of this senator bitching about name-confusion drips off of the receding permafrost....

Then, in 2016, Mayor Dan Sullivan decided to run for Lisa Murkowski's seat, but pulled his candidacy, mysteriously (according to the Anchorage Daily News) before the election.

Had he succeeded, there would have been TWO senators with the same name from the same state in 2017.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Sullivan_(Anchorage_mayor)

[karynnj]

4. Here's an article when there were 2 people with the same name as the

current Democratic governor. https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2024/05/13/bob-ferguson-gets-two-bob-fergusons-to-exit-governors-race/

Then, a Republican activist was behind it and raised the money to file. I hope no Democrat was involved here.

[groundloop]

5. GOPers have done this for years to steal votes from Democrats.....

I can't remember the name, but I recall a race in Florida from a few years ago.