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MAJOR BREAKING NEWS ALERT: Liar Liar Pants on Fire Mary! Mark Elias is alleged to be involved with Petrola's campaign to corrupt the Alaska senate race. Crooked Alaska Democrat senate candidate Mary Peltola and her allies worked to recruit spoiler candidates in Alaska Senate race. Operatives aligned with Democrat Senate nominee Mary Peltola spent months recruiting candidates in an effort to dilute support for Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan on Alaska’s crowded ballot, according to The New York Times. The effort, internally dubbed the “ballot composition project,” included an early directive to a Peltola staffer in the summer of 2025: find as many people named Dan Sullivan as possible in the state. The goal, the report says, was to land another Dan Sullivan on the ballot to create confusion and siphon votes from the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan. The White House communications department weighed in with a firm rebuke of the reporting that has come out after nearly 60,000 early votes have been cast in that election thus far, according to The Associated Press. A retired teacher from the small Panhandle community of Petersburg, Dan J. Sullivan, ultimately filed and is now on the November ballot alongside Senator Dan Sullivan, Mary Peltola, and long-shot candidate Gerald Heikes. The New York Times, citing interviews with 12 people and dozens of text messages, reported that Peltola campaign aides and senior Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee officials participated in regular discussions about the project. "The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign and did not recruit any candidates into the race," the Peltola campaign said in a statement to the New York Times. The DSCC issued a similar denial, saying it had "no involvement" in recruiting the other Sullivan or any other Republican candidate. "The DSCC is not involved with Dan J. Sullivan," the statement read. "Republicans have a long history of recruiting and propping up candidates in an attempt to boost their own campaigns – including recruiting a prisoner with a New York address to run against Mary Peltola and spending nearly half a million dollars to secure a spot on the ballot in Alaska for an Arizona resident in the Senate race this cycle." National Republican Communications Director Joanna Rodriguez fired back in a statement on X. "The Democrats that cry about threats to democracy spent months working to intentionally undermine it," she wrote. "Mary Peltola is a LIAR and a CHEAT who mooches off taxpayers and thinks Alaskans are stupid. Rank Dan S, Daniel, Gerry, DON'T RANK LYING MARY." Former Peltola campaign manager Elisa Rios, who was fired in August, described the project in interviews with the New York Times and said Peltola was "definitely aware," though not directly involved. "Peltola will be held accountable this election for her dishonesty and deception," Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., chair of the NRSC, wrote in a statement. "Alaskans will leave Peltola unranked on the ballot because of her dirty tricks. Voters can trust the real Dan Sullivan, and I'm confident he'll be re-elected." The Elias Law Group, led by well-known Democrat-linked attorney Marc Elias, is alleged to have ties to the scheme through Jacquelyn Lopez, an attorney there, Rios told the Times. A campaign consultant asked Rios via text, the Times reported: "Do we need to follow up with Jackie about MAGA party stuff?" Rios later sought to retract her statements as the story was being prepared for publication; the Times said it had never agreed the interviews were off the record and that her account was consistent with other reporting. Alaska’s nonpartisan primary system makes it relatively easy to place additional candidates on the general-election ballot. The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of results if votes for the other Dan Sullivan cost the incumbent the race.

— Saint James Hartline (@JamesHartline) October 28, 2026

Liar Liar Pants on Fire Mary! Mark Elias is alleged to be involved with Petrola's campaign to corrupt the Alaska senate race. Crooked Alaska Democrat senate candidate Mary Peltola and her allies worked to recruit spoiler candidates in Alaska Senate race. Operatives aligned with Democrat Senate nominee Mary Peltola spent months recruiting candidates in an effort to dilute support for Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan on Alaska’s crowded ballot, according to The New York Times.

The effort, internally dubbed the “ballot composition project,” included an early directive to a Peltola staffer in the summer of 2025: find as many people named Dan Sullivan as possible in the state.

The goal, the report says, was to land another Dan Sullivan on the ballot to create confusion and siphon votes from the incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan.

The White House communications department weighed in with a firm rebuke of the reporting that has come out after nearly 60,000 early votes have been cast in that election thus far, according to The Associated Press.

A retired teacher from the small Panhandle community of Petersburg, Dan J. Sullivan, ultimately filed and is now on the November ballot alongside Senator Dan Sullivan, Mary Peltola, and long-shot candidate Gerald Heikes.

The New York Times, citing interviews with 12 people and dozens of text messages, reported that Peltola campaign aides and senior Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee officials participated in regular discussions about the project.

"The Alaskans for Mary campaign has no involvement with either Sullivan campaign and did not recruit any candidates into the race," the Peltola campaign said in a statement to the New York Times.

The DSCC issued a similar denial, saying it had "no involvement" in recruiting the other Sullivan or any other Republican candidate.

"The DSCC is not involved with Dan J. Sullivan," the statement read. "Republicans have a long history of recruiting and propping up candidates in an attempt to boost their own campaigns – including recruiting a prisoner with a New York address to run against Mary Peltola and spending nearly half a million dollars to secure a spot on the ballot in Alaska for an Arizona resident in the Senate race this cycle."

National Republican Communications Director Joanna Rodriguez fired back in a statement on X.

"The Democrats that cry about threats to democracy spent months working to intentionally undermine it," she wrote.

"Mary Peltola is a LIAR and a CHEAT who mooches off taxpayers and thinks Alaskans are stupid. Rank Dan S, Daniel, Gerry, DON'T RANK LYING MARY."

Former Peltola campaign manager Elisa Rios, who was fired in August, described the project in interviews with the New York Times and said Peltola was "definitely aware," though not directly involved.

"Peltola will be held accountable this election for her dishonesty and deception," Sen. Tim Scott, R-S.C., chair of the NRSC, wrote in a statement. "Alaskans will leave Peltola unranked on the ballot because of her dirty tricks. Voters can trust the real Dan Sullivan, and I'm confident he'll be re-elected."

The Elias Law Group, led by well-known Democrat-linked attorney Marc Elias, is alleged to have ties to the scheme through Jacquelyn Lopez, an attorney there, Rios told the Times.

A campaign consultant asked Rios via text, the Times reported: "Do we need to follow up with Jackie about MAGA party stuff?"

Rios later sought to retract her statements as the story was being prepared for publication; the Times said it had never agreed the interviews were off the record and that her account was consistent with other reporting.

Alaska’s nonpartisan primary system makes it relatively easy to place additional candidates on the general-election ballot.
The Justice Department has filed a lawsuit seeking to block certification of results if votes for the other Dan Sullivan cost the incumbent the race.

The guy behind the phony Dan Sullivan candidate on Alaska's ballot is the former campaign manager for Sen. Raphael Warnock: Inside Democrats’ Secret Effort to Stack Alaska’s Ballot https://t.co/k7VRMOd1Bx

— Susan Ferrechio (@susanferrechio) October 28, 2026

🚨Mary Peltola in August: “It should be a criminal offense to lie or mislead the electorate. YES!” https://t.co/oemOFQJxKZ

— Senate Republicans (@NRSC) October 28, 2026