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With Marc Elias involved, you KNOW dirty tricks are afoot in Alaska race

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Post Editorial Board. (2026, October 30). With Marc Elias involved, you KNOW dirty tricks are afoot in Alaska race. New York Post. https://nypost.com/2026/10/30/opinion/with-marc-elias-involved-you-know-dirty-tricks-are-afoot-in-alaska-race/

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This piece critiques Marc Elias, a prominent Democratic strategist, for his alleged involvement in what it calls deceptive political tactics during the Alaska Senate race. The author suggests that Elias and his law firm assisted in recruiting an unnamed candidate with a similar name to incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan to confuse voters and help Mary Peltola win under ranked-choice voting rules. The article portrays this as unethical behavior typical of Elias, who is accused of orchestrating other controversial political maneuvers in the past.

Written by AI on 2026-10-31, from this article's own text only (the story summary below draws on all the coverage).

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Mary Peltola's campaign, running for the U.S. Senate seat in Alaska against incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan, was involved in efforts to place another candidate named Dan J. Sullivan on the ballot to confuse voters. According to reports from The New York Times and other outlets, text messages between members of Peltola’s team discussed recruiting individuals with the same name as their opponent. Election authorities attempted to disqualify the second Dan Sullivan but failed to do so in time for the election.

The plan also reportedly involved creating a third-party "MAGA party" to siphon votes from incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan, though this idea was eventually abandoned. The race is seen as crucial because it could determine which party controls the Senate, with Democrats currently holding 47 seats compared to Republicans' 53.

On election day and in the immediate aftermath, Republican supporters expressed concern that they might have mistakenly voted for "Decoy Dan" Sullivan instead of incumbent Senator Dan S. Sullivan, raising fears about potential vote confusion. The New York Times investigation also revealed efforts by a Democratic PAC to send voter guides replacing Sen. Dan Sullivan with the spoiler candidate.

Incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan has accused Democrats of engaging in election cheating, highlighting this as one of the most significant election controversies in Alaska's history.

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“While both articles discuss the alleged plot to put two men named Dan Sullivan on the ballot in Alaska's Senate race, Article A focuses on Mary Peltola denying knowledge of the scheme and an ongoing criminal investigation, while Article B attributes the scheme to Marc Elias and frames it as a 'dirty trick'. They do not describe the same specific incident.”

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Of course Democratic arch-dirty-trickster Marc Elias is neck-deep in the swampy Senate steal in Alaska, but don’t expect any members of the “we must save our democracy” party to utter a peep about it. asserted

we → expect → it

Outrage has been building over the effort to deceive voters of the Last Frontier by running another Dan Sullivan in the race against incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan — and so let challenger Mary Peltola squeak through to victory thanks to the state’s ranked-choice-voting rules. asserted

Peltola → build → rules

Now it seems the scheme was orchestrated by the very guy who gave us the Trump-smearing Steele Dossier, supercharged the flow of dark money into politics, engineered countless 2020 voter-rules changes that boosted Democrats and masterminded the judicial resistance of Trump’s second term. asserted

that → seem → term

The operative’s Elias Law Group served as counsel to both the Peltola campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, with New York Times reporting putting at least one Elias attorney at the heart of the effort to recruit a conveniently-named retired forest service employee with no prior political experience (or apparent interest) to enter the state’s non-partisan Senate primary race. And of course the “extra” Dan Sullivan, though now registered as a Republican, was assisted and funded every step of the way by Democratic operatives and donors, largely affiliated with the Elias network. asserted

Sullivan → serve → network

Peltola campaigns as an anti-politician, yet her campaign was working with the ultimate Democratic political operative’s firm to pull off a quintessential inside-baseball dirty trick. asserted

campaign → campaign → trick

It may well be a federal crime, as a conspiracy to deceive and injure the public’s exercise of constitutional voting rights. uncertain

It → deceive → rights

Marc Elias is right at home in this murk: He was Hillary Clinton’s campaign cutout in hiring smear-artist firm Fusion GPS to order up the Steele disinformation package central to the Russiagate hoax; he signed on to help Black Lives Matter when its nonprofit’s leadership couldn’t account for how they’d spent tens of millions of dollars. asserted

they → hire → dollars

Elias was also the prime mover behind legislation and litigation to permit foreigners, billionaires and foreign billionaires to pour money into the US electoral system — what Democrats now bewail as “dark money” (but only when Republicans use it). asserted

Republicans → permit → it

He is, in short, an expert at both the sleaziest political operations and painting his Democrats as innocent victims of GOP misconduct. asserted

He → paint → misconduct

Marc Elias was the perfect guy to help Mary Peltola plot to steal a US Senate seat even as she plays the innocent outsider. asserted

she → help → outsider

With Marc Elias involved, you KNOW dirty tricks are afoot in Alaska race

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