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Reporting from Just the News
Elias' firm, which represents both Peltola's campaign and the DSCC, received criminal target letters from the Department of Justice on Election Day as legal experts warn that the campaign's own lawyers may become fact witnesses. Elias first gained notoriety for helping to create the Steele Dossier on behalf of Hillary Clinton.
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Reporting from Just the News
The department confirmed last week that there is a probe into allegations of a plot that is designed to confuse voters in the midterms by recruiting a candidate with the same name as the state's incumbent senator.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square)—The outcome of a tightly contested and controversial U.S. Senate race in Alaska may not be known until the end of the month or later.
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Reporting from Just the News
In Alaska's race, incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan held a narrow lead over Democratic challenger Mary Peltola, and in the Mississippi Senate race, Democrat Scott Colom and Republican incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith were running neck-in-neck Wednesday morning.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) – Polls are now closed across Alaska and the time-consuming process of determining the winner is under way.
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(The Center Square)—U.S. voters and poll workers confronted defective scanners, false bomb threats, and flooding during a contentious Election Day 2026 in which control of Congress and the state houses were at stake.
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Reporting from The Center Square
(The Center Square) — Federal officials sent letters on Tuesday to people suspected of recruiting an alleged spoiler candidate in Alaska’s U.S. Senate race, in a move to possibly bring federal charges in the consequential case.
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“Find as many people named Dan Sullivan in Alaska as you can.”
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(The Center Square) - A federal judge in Alaska on Sunday dismissed a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Justice Department seeking to delay certification of Alaska's U.S. Senate race if an alleged spoiler candidate remains on the ballot.
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Reporting from Just the News
The argument is that if campaign operatives can quietly recruit a namesake to confuse voters in a tight Senate race, voters can’t trust that their ballots reflect real choices. Two congressional committees are now trying to find out who planned it and whether it broke the law.
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