WASHINGTON, D.C. – The fallout continues after the New York Times’ bombshell investigation further proved that Mary Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC recruited Decoy Dan to confuse Alaskans and rig Alaska’s Senate race—a federal crime. Here’s what people are saying about Peltola’s scheme, including how it violates federal law:
Will Chamberlain, Article III Project: “Tim Scott is right: what Peltola’s campaign and the DSCC allegedly did in Alaska is criminal. Recruiting a fake “Dan Sullivan” to confuse voters and siphon votes from the real one is a conspiracy to deceive voters and corrupt the ballot. That’s 18 U.S.C. § 241, the same theory the Biden DOJ used to go after Douglass Mackey. Federal charges are coming.”
Scott Jennings, CNN: “They are abject liars, and they did engage in a conspiracy.”
Hugh Hewitt, Salem News: “You cannot conspire to defraud an electorate… The real Dan Sullivan brings home a lot to Alaska… It would be CRAZY for Alaska to change [Sen. Sullivan] for [Mary Peltola] who is going to be under investigation for a long time, maybe under charges as well.”
Clay Travis, Outkick: “This is direct criminal interference designed to fraudulently lead voters in Alaska to not select the right candidate… This behavior by Peltola’s campaign and the Democrat Senate campaign committee is criminal.”
Donna Rotunno, Criminal Defense Attorney: “Not only is there corruption but now there is a coverup to the crime. So this is just horrendous… The legal challenges are going to be unbelievable.”
Jonathan Turley: “This is quickly becoming a serious scandal for Peltola… I think there will be criminal and civil elements here… You have what are clearly false statements that some have made… all of those people are going to have to lawyer up, including the lawyers.”
Tim Graham, NewsBusters: “We knew it! The Democrats engaged in a conspiracy to put a “fake” Dan Sullivan on the ballot in the Alaska Senate race to confuse voters — and lied about it. The @nytimes confirmed it yesterday, that the Democrat nominee Mary Peltola was hip-deep in the conspiracy.”
Ari Fleischer: “There also needs to be an investigation into the Democratic Senate Campaign Committee, which is chaired by NY Senator Kristen Gellibrand. According to the NYT, the DSCC was deeply involved in this corrupt act.”
Daniel Turner, Power the Future: ”Mary got caught. There’s a paper trail. She and others will get investigated, indicted, and hopefully convicted. Alaska deserves better. America deserves better…”
Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R-AK): “Today’s New York Times reporting reveals disturbing new evidence of an organized effort to manipulate Alaska’s elections by recruiting candidates—including one with the same name as an incumbent U.S. Senator—to deliberately confuse voters and misdirect their votes. The Alaska Division of Elections investigated these very concerns in June of this year. The new reporting substantially supports the Division’s findings.”
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT): “She’s dismissing as a “distraction” the story about the fact that she recruited a fake Dan Sullivan to run against the real Senator Dan Sullivan. She literally created a scheme to distract and confuse voters. That’s some serious, end-stage projection.”
Catherine Herridge: “With @nytimes investigation into ‘decoy Dan,’ it’s worth re-visiting @MaryPeltola’s @X account where she promises to “….unrig the system”
Brad Todd: “These charges go all the way up to the head of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee… It’s more than dirty tricks. This is an effort to defraud the voters.”
Elie Honig, CNN Senior Legal Analyst: “A very aggressive prosecutor might try to put together a charge saying this was a deprivation of the voters’ rights of Alaska to cast their votes and have it counted, if there was intentional effort to confuse people.”
Byron York, Washington Examiner: “Mary Peltola keeps denying, tries the old standard reaction to her ballot-stacking scandal: “This is just another distraction, it’s another diversion…This is all stuff to sell newspapers.”
David Pollack, One America News: “For months, Mary Peltola’s campaign has insisted it had nothing to do with the second Dan Sullivan on Alaska’s Senate ballot. Then the New York Times got the texts. The Times reports Peltola campaign aides, campaign lawyers and DSCC staffers helped push a retired teacher named Dan J. Sullivan into the race against Sen. Dan Sullivan. Inside, they called it the “ballot composition project.”…When your path to a Senate seat runs through a matching name, you already know you can’t win on the issues.”