{"id":696158,"date":"2026-10-31T12:10:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:10:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=696158"},"modified":"2026-10-31T12:10:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T12:10:24","slug":"mia-decoy-dan-flees-as-scrutiny-mounts-over-dems-ballot-shenanigans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/?p=696158","title":{"rendered":"MIA: \u2018Decoy Dan\u2019 flees as scrutiny mounts over Dems\u2019 ballot shenanigans"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Already absent from the campaign trail, a new report raised questions as to where Alaska\u2019s controversial Senate candidate, last seen on a flight, may have gone.<\/p>\n

This week, the findings of an investigation by The New York Times about ballot shenanigans marked only the latest example of Democrats allegedly doing precisely what they accuse Republicans of: meddling with elections.<\/p>\n

Now, as federal and state probes look into the case of the double Dan Sullivans on the ballot and whether or not Alaska Rep. Mary Peltola and the Democrats were behind the effort at deception, CBS News\u2019 team on the ground reported Dan J. Sullivan\u2019s whereabouts remain unknown along with other campaign peculiarities.<\/p>\n

Following reports tying the congresswoman\u2019s Senate campaign to the recruitment of Sullivan to run as a means to confuse voters supporting incumbent Alaska Sen. Dan S. Sullivan (R), CBS News traveled to Dan J. Sullivan\u2019s hometown of Petersburg, Alaska where the candidate could not be located.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne resident and former student of Sullivan\u2019s said she saw Sullivan on a flight to Anchorage on Monday \u2014 two days before The New York Times first reported that he was recruited by operatives linked to Democrat Mary Peltola\u2019s campaign,\u201d detailed the outlet. \u201cThe source added she did not know where Sullivan was headed, but another friend said he and his wife are known among friends as \u2018world travelers.’\u201d<\/p>\n

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Daniel J. Sullivan, the independent candidate running for Senate in Alaska whose name is almost identical to the Republican senator running for reelection, left his hometown of Petersburg earlier this week, multiple sources confirmed to CBS News.<\/p>\n

One resident and former student of Sullivan\u2019s said she saw Sullivan on a flight to Anchorage on Monday \u2014 two days before The New York Times first reported that he was recruited by operatives linked to Democrat Mary Peltola\u2019s campaign. https:\/\/t.co\/hDk5Hc40g5<\/p>\n

\u2014 CBS News (@CBSNews) October 30, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cSullivan\u2019s current whereabouts after leaving his hometown are not clear,\u201d furthered CBS News as\u00a0residents of Petersburg contend the candidate did not campaign there in the months leading up to the election. Likewise, the news crew could not find signs of active campaigning, \u201cincluding outside his own home.\u201d<\/p>\n

As was previously reported, in addition to outgoing Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) ordering an investigation<\/a> into Peltola and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), the Department of Justice issued at least three dozen subpoenas<\/a> on Thursday as it probed the same.<\/p>\n

At the same time, a lawsuit filed by the DOJ that aims to block the certification of the election if Sen. Sullivan were shown to lose the race because of the second Dan Sullivan on the ranked-choice ballot was amended to describe the activity prompting the suit as a \u201cconspiracy to undermine the integrity of the electoral process.\u201d<\/p>\n

For his part, President Donald Trump considered the matter to be an open and shut case as he posted to Truth Social Wednesday, \u201cIt has just been determined that the Democrats in Alaska illegally searched for, and recruited, a man named Dan Sullivan to run against our distinguished Republican Senator, Dan Sullivan, in order to defraud, confuse, and obfuscate the Election, thereby taking votes away from the REAL Senator, Dan Sullivan.\u201d<\/p>\n

Trump went on to state, \u201cMary Peltola should suffer the Legal and Political consequences for what she has done, A FRAUD ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, and Dan Sullivan should be allowed to run without either Mary Peltola or FAKE Dan Sullivan on the Ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n

What\u2019s more, the president told reporters how he believed \u201cMary Peltola should resign from the race\u201d and \u201cshould be prosecuted criminally for what she did.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Trump calls for prosecution of Dem Senate candidate over dirty ballot trick https:\/\/t.co\/vjAovayM2D via @BIZPACReview<\/p>\n

\u2014 BPR (@BIZPACReview) October 29, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Already absent from the campaign trail, a new report raised questions as to where Alaska\u2019s controversial Senate candidate, last seen on a flight, may have gone. This week, the findings of an investigation by The New York Times about ballot shenanigans marked only the latest example of Democrats allegedly doing precisely what they accuse Republicans… Continue reading MIA: \u2018Decoy Dan\u2019 flees as scrutiny mounts over Dems\u2019 ballot shenanigans<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-696158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-border-security","category-immigration","category-immigration-reform","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=696158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/696158\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=696158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=696158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/buglecall.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=696158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}