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Report alleges that Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited other contenders to mislead Republican opponent’s supporters

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Donald Trump demands a Democrat be removed from the Alaska ballot after a NYT report alleged a scheme to recruit spoiler candidates to confuse voters. Read More: https://punchng.com/trump-demands-alaska-democrat-off-ballot-after-ny-times-report/

The DOJ wants a judge to temporarily block certification of the Alaska Senate election if incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan loses due to voter confusion.

Operatives aligned with Mary Peltola, the Democratic nominee for Senate, spent months recruiting candidates to peel votes from Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican.

The Republican senator endorsed Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins over Trump-backed Bernadette Wilson a week before Election Day.

The judge handling the Justice Department's bid to block certification of Alaska's Senate race if the Republican narrowly loses showed skepticism of DOJ's legal strategy.

The Justice Department's lawsuit over potential confusion in the Alaska Senate race continues to stir controversy days ahead of the midterm elections. CBS News' Kaia Hubbard reports.

Attorney General Todd Blanche sparred with "Face the Nation" moderator Margaret Brennan over the Justice Department's preemptive lawsuit in the Alaska Senate race. CBS News' Caitlin Huey-Burns reports.

The winner of the Alaska Senate election could determine whether Republicans or Democrats have a majority in the Senate in the next Congress.

Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the Justice Department's preventative lawsuit alleging potential confusion in the Alaska Senate race. CBS News contributor David Becker weighs in.

The Department of Justice has faced criticism that its lawsuit is aimed at blocking a Democratic victory in a key race.

Democrats have maintained they have no connection to Daniel J. Sullivan.

Peltola required medical attention after the accident, which happened when another vehicle crashed into the one transporting Peltola and her family, the campaign said.

Anchorage police confirmed a crash involving three vehicles occurred Saturday and said those involved sustained “non-life threatening” injuries.

Blanche told CNN's "State of the Union" that President Donald Trump, who said Friday that he was "the one that said do it," is not trying to overturn state election results "in any way, shape or form" on the cusp of the Nov. 3 election.

Attorney General Todd Blanche defended the Justice Department's suit over Alaska's Senate race in an interview on CNN.

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit last week to preemptively challenge the certification of Alaska's Senate race if the Republican incumbent, Sen. Dan Sullivan, loses.

Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola sustained "minor injuries" in a car accident, her campaign said.

With the Trump administration preemptively suing to block the certification of the results in the Alaska Senate race, Attorney General Todd Blanche told "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that the Justice Department is "doing our own research under the law."

The Justice Department sued Alaska election officials Thursday seeking to block the election results from being certified if GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses.

“There is no legal excuse” for the failure of 18 polling sites to open for early voting, a state lawmaker said.

On Thursday, the DOJ filed a lawsuit to block Alaska from certifying its senate election results if Republican Dan S. Sullivan, the incumbent, doesn’t win.

Lawsuits filed by candidate Mary Peltola and a voters' rights group challenge Trump's preemptive efforts to block a Democratic Senate victory in Alaska.

With moves in Alaska and California, the department has stepped up interventions in the midterm elections as the president’s instrument of unmediated executive power.

One of them is a Republican senator and ally of the president. The other is a retired schoolteacher whom Republicans accuse of being a Democratic plant to siphon away votes.

Bộ Tư pháp Mỹ đang tìm cách ngăn Alaska xác nhận kết quả bầu cử Thượng viện trong trường hợp ứng viên Cộng hòa bị đánh bại.

US government seeks to delay Alaska Senate result over concerns about two candidates with the same name.

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The intervention by a president to launch a preemptive challenge against a possible election result casts a new shadow over the midterms.

Alaskassa on ehdolla kaksi republikaaniehdokasta, joilla on lähes identtiset nimet.

Justisdepartementet ønsker stanse godkjenningen av valgresultatet i Alaska hvis republikaneren Dan Sullivan taper valget med små marginer.

Le président américain a dit avoir demandé à son administration de bloquer la validation des résultats en cas de succès démocrate, arguant que la présence d’un candidat homonyme au sénateur républicain sortant pouvait induire en erreur les électeurs.

President Trump is calling into question the integrity of the upcoming Alaska Senate vote, asking the Justice Department to block future certification over possible confusion around the identities of two candidates who share the same name. Nancy Cordes has more.

Interviews and documents show a Russian energy giant secretly funded a U.S. firm. The deal has been discussed in talks to end the war in Ukraine.

President Trump's Justice Department has filed a lawsuit to block the certification of Alaska's Senate race if incumbent Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses. It argues the presence of another GOP candidate, named Daniel J. Sullivan, could create confusion for voters and benefit Democrats. CBS news legal contributor Jessica Levinson breaks it all down.

President Trump told the Justice Department to intervene in the race, where polling shows Republicans at risk of losing a seat.

No obvious legal authority supports a pre-emptive effort to block the certification of Alaska’s Senate election if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.

President Trump is making a final push to help Republicans maintain control of Congress as some of the most closely watched races remain competitive. But the battle for the Senate is also playing out in court. In Alaska, the Trump administration sued to potentially block certification of the election if the Republican incumbent loses. White House corresponde

Jonathan Capehart of MS NOW and National Review editor Ramesh Ponnuru join Geoff Bennett to discuss the week in politics, including the Trump administration's legal fight over a closely watched Senate race in Alaska, reports that Elon Musk restricted Ukraine's access to Starlink and Vivek Ramaswamy's personal ad attacking his opponent in the Ohio governor's

At President Trump's direction, the Justice Department sued Friday to block the certification of the Alaska Senate race if Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan loses, citing the presence of another candidate on the ballot bearing the same name. CBS News senior White House and political correspondent Ed O'Keefe has more.

Plus, a promising cancer vaccine. Here’s the latest at the end of Friday.

Nog voordat ze überhaupt hebben plaatsgevonden, dreigen de komende verkiezingen in de VS al een staartje te krijgen. Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie heeft een rechtszaak aangespannen om de uitslag in Alaska te kunnen blokkeren. President Trump zegt dat de rechtszaak er is gekomen op zijn verzoek. Op het stembiljet in Alaska hebben twee kandidaten vri

In Alaska konkurrieren zwei Republikaner mit dem Nachnamen Sullivan um einen Sitz im Senat. US-Präsident Trump gefällt das nicht: Er befürchtet Stimmverluste.

Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie is in opdracht van president Donald Trump een rechtszaak begonnen tegen Alaska. De president wil niet dat de staat in november een eventuele verkiezingswinst van de Democraten goedkeurt voordat is onderzocht of het stembiljet voor verwarring heeft gezorgd.

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Kandidiert Dan J. Sullivan nur, um Dan S. Sullivan die Stimmen zu stehlen? Davon geht offenbar die US-Regierung aus. Um das zu verhindern, hat das Justizministerium nun rechtliche Schritte eingeleitet.

President Donald Trump took credit for the action amid growing concerns the US government could meddle in midterm races.

Candidates’ similar names could ‘taint’ the result, argues US Justice Department

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The Justice Department is suing Alaska election officials to prevent them from certifying Senate race results if GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan loses next month.

The department, in a highly unusual lawsuit, argued that confusion over candidates with similar names could taint the election result.

President Trump says he directed the DOJ to preemptively file a lawsuit to block the certification of the Alaska Senate race if the Republican incumbent narrowly loses.

The Trump administration is suing to prevent the Alaska Senate election from being certified if GOP Sen. Daniel Sullivan loses to Democrat Mary Peltola because of the other Dan Sullivan who is on the ballot.

There are two Dan Sullivans on the ballot in the Senate race in Alaska. The DOJ says that fact could help Democratic nominee Mary Peltola defeat both of them.

The lawsuit centers on one of the president's longstanding complaints in the Senate race — the presence of a second candidate named Dan Sullivan who Republicans fear could siphon away votes from the incumbent in what's likely to be a photo-finish contest with Democrat Mary Peltola.