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Dan Sullivan Timeline: How Trump’s Posts Tracked DOJ’s Alaska Senate Fight
Trump: “I’m the one that said do it.” His AG: no idea what he meant. Our timeline of the DOJ’s Alaska Senate fight. Read More
Peltola holds lead, but Sullivan gains after latest Alaska Senate vote drop
Former Rep. Mary Peltola’s (D-Alaska) campaign said Wednesday that Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) is running out of opportunities to overcome her lead in the state’s closely contested Senate race. The warning came after the latest batch of ballots showed the incumbent making only modest gains in a tra Read More
Peltola campaign loses in court on rejected absentee ballots as she maintains narrow lead
Democratic Senate nominee Mary Peltola lost her court bid for ballot records and saw her narrow Alaska lead over Dan Sullivan shrink Wednesday. Read More
Judge rules Peltola request for ballot data in Alaska Senate race ‘not reasonable’
The superior court judge’s decision in favor of the state comes as Peltola leads Sullivan by 4,250 votes as of Wednesday evening. Read More
'About to make some history': Observers stunned as new Alaska numbers sink Trump's theory
Democrat Mary Peltola’s growing lead in Alaska’s Senate race has undercut one of President Donald Trump’s arguments about the contest. Her lead over Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan is now bigger than the vote total of the second Dan Sullivan on the ballot.Trump demanded on Truth Social that votes for i Read More
Peltola surpasses combined Dan Sullivan votes after latest drop
Editor’s note: This story has been updated to accurately reflect Dan J. Sullivan’s standing in the Alaska Senate race Former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) on Tuesday surpassed the combined vote total of Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) and independent Dan J. Sullivan following the latest ballot drop in t Read More
In court, Peltola campaign asks Alaska judge to allow release of absentee ballot data
The Anchorage Superior Court judge allowed Sen. Dan Sullivan’s campaign to intervene. The judge will issue a written decision within 24 hours, he said. Read More
Peltola widens narrow Alaska Senate lead over Sullivan as counting continues
Mary Peltola's lead over Dan Sullivan grew to 2,517 votes after Monday's ballot drop, but tens of thousands of absentee ballots remain uncounted. Read More
Peltola expands lead over Sullivan in Alaska Senate contest
Former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Alaska) has expanded her lead over Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) in her state’s competitive Senate contest. The latest batch of votes to be counted reported Peltola leading by 2,517 first-choice votes which extended her lead of 637 from last week. She holds 48.63 percent o Read More
Trump demands thousands of votes be handed to GOP senator: ‘Time is of the essence’
President Donald Trump demanded Tuesday that more than 3,600 votes cast for a second Dan Sullivan in Alaska’s Senate race be “given” to the Republican incumbent, and branded the contest “rigged” without offering evidence. On election night, Trump told The New York Times he would not challenge the re Read More
Sullivan campaign files motion against Peltola over rejected absentee ballot lawsuit
Sen. Dan Sullivan’s (R-Alaska) campaign on Monday filed a motion against Alaska Senate candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign to intervene in its rejected absentee ballot lawsuit. Her campaign sued the state of Alaska on Friday to obtain access to records for absentee ballots that were rejected by the Al Read More
Ranked-Choice Twist: The Other Dan Sullivan and the Numbers to Win Alaska
Alaska’s U.S. Senate count is far from finished and a second Dan Sullivan on the ballot could decide its outcome. Read More
Dunleavy calls Alaska voting system ‘very confusing’ as razor-thin Senate race frozen in time
Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy calls ranked-choice voting "very confusing" as Mary Peltola leads Dan Sullivan by just 637 votes in Senate race. Read More
Donald Trump Makes Wild Election Claim as Stephen Miller Takes the Reins
Apparently, voting for someone else still counts as voting Republican. Read More
Trump declares Alaska Senate race ‘over’ in favor of GOP candidate following ‘Decoy Dan’ scandal
President Trump declared the Senate race in Alaska “over” and his favored candidate Sen. Dan Sullivan to have “won” – even though the the outcome of his race against former Rep. Mary Pe… Read More
Trump melts down over red state Senate race he insists his ally won ‘BY A LOT’
President Donald Trump rolled out a fresh round of creative math on Truth Social to insist his pick has already won a key Senate race.In a post on Saturday, Trump claimed Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) is "up by thousands of Votes" once ballots cast for two other candidates, retired teacher Daniel J. Sull Read More
Like in past elections, Alaska is still counting ballots. When will we know who won?
With up to potentially 60,000 ballots or so still uncounted, roughly one-quarter of votes have not been tallied — leaving tight contests like the U.S. Senate race between Sen. Dan Sullivan and Mary Peltola still undecided. Read More
Alaska Senate race too close to call amid Dan Sullivan controversy
The race for Alaska's U.S. Senate seat is still too close to call, and it could all come down to voters' second choices. A ballot controversy involving two candidates named Dan Sullivan is also looming over the race. FOX's Sarah Alegre has more. Read More
Forget the Second Dan Sullivan. Eric Hafner Was Alaska’s Bigger Spoiler
For months, Alaska's ballot was a fight over who belonged on it. Read More
Senate race unresolved in Alaska with weekslong process possible
The Senate race in Alaska, which has garnered widespread attention with two candidates named Dan Sullivan, remains in limbo. Read More