Oct 26, 2026 · 36 min · 9 segments
Will the Department of Justice’s lawsuit to block Alaska’s Senate race results succeed? Is this a sign of things to come if Trump loses big in the midterms? And, has Barack Obama’s campaign appearance…
Katty KayHost
Anthony ScaramucciHost
Anyway, Trump wants to block the results of that election if the Republican incumbent, Senator Dan Sullivan, dies.
It centers around the presence, you'll remember this from our episode, of a second candidate who is also named Dan Sullivan on the ballot, who is running not for any party affiliation.
So on the ballot, Alaska voters are going to have to choose between Dan Sullivan and Dan Sullivan, and Mary Peltola.
And basically what the Justice Department is saying is, this is very confusing to voters.
If Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican incumbent, doesn't win, we think it will have been because voters are confused, they were misled by this guy who is now being called by Republicans, Decoy Dan, and we want the election result overturned if we think there was confusion.
The Alaska Supreme Court, has already ruled on this case back in June and did rule that Dan Sullivan, the retired teacher, otherwise known as Decoy Dan, which is a Republican talking point.
They have ruled, the Supreme Court has ruled that he is allowed to run and that this is all legitimate and that if somebody wants to run and they happen to have the same name, fair game, they are allowed to run in the election.
And I reached out to a lawyer, Norm Eisen, you know Norm Eisen from Democracy Defenders, who's running a lot of the lawsuits, because this is part of a patent, guys.
We're kicking off with Alaska, but we are going to give you the whole spiel on how many suits there are around the country where the Justice Department, aka the White House at this point, is trying to interfere in the elections to lay the groundwork for legal challenges afterwards.
Anyway, Norm Eisen, who is doing sterling work in trying to counter this, says this is a totally frivolous lawsuit.
All they're trying to do is just make voters think that there is something fishy going on.
But I thought, Antony, in your wonderful election system here in the United States, it was the states that ran the election.
So if the Alaska state apparatus, election apparatus, says this is OK and the Supreme Court says this is OK, isn't it OK?
I mean, there's no way they'll win this court case because the precedent is grounded in 200 years of whatever the state and local authorities say effectively cures the ballot.
Now, interestingly enough, and this is sort of bizarre, but in 2014, this Dan Sullivan was on the ballot with another Dan Sullivan.
Anyway, Trump wants to block the results of that election if the Republican incumbent, Senator Dan Sullivan, dies.
It centers around the presence, you'll remember this from our episode, of a second candidate who is also named Dan Sullivan on the ballot, who is running not for any party affiliation.
So on the ballot, Alaska voters are going to have to choose between Dan Sullivan and Dan Sullivan, and Mary Peltola.
And basically what the Justice Department is saying is, this is very confusing to voters.
If Senator Dan Sullivan, the Republican incumbent, doesn't win, we think it will have been because voters are confused, they were misled by this guy who is now being called by Republicans, Decoy Dan, and we want the election result overturned if we think there was confusion.
The Alaska Supreme Court, has already ruled on this case back in June and did rule that Dan Sullivan, the retired teacher, otherwise known as Decoy Dan, which is a Republican talking point.
They have ruled, the Supreme Court has ruled that he is allowed to run and that this is all legitimate and that if somebody wants to run and they happen to have the same name, fair game, they are allowed to run in the election.
And I reached out to a lawyer, Norm Eisen, you know Norm Eisen from Democracy Defenders, who's running a lot of the lawsuits, because this is part of a patent, guys.
We're kicking off with Alaska, but we are going to give you the whole spiel on how many suits there are around the country where the Justice Department, aka the White House at this point, is trying to interfere in the elections to lay the groundwork for legal challenges afterwards.
Anyway, Norm Eisen, who is doing sterling work in trying to counter this, says this is a totally frivolous lawsuit.
All they're trying to do is just make voters think that there is something fishy going on.
But I thought, Antony, in your wonderful election system here in the United States, it was the states that ran the election.
So if the Alaska state apparatus, election apparatus, says this is OK and the Supreme Court says this is OK, isn't it OK?
I mean, there's no way they'll win this court case because the precedent is grounded in 200 years of whatever the state and local authorities say effectively cures the ballot.
Now, interestingly enough, and this is sort of bizarre, but in 2014, this Dan Sullivan was on the ballot with another Dan Sullivan.
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