Trump requests disqualification of Democratic Senate candidate for Alaska

O American President Donald Trump today called for the disqualification of the Democratic Senate candidate in Alaska, who according to the press encouraged the candidacy of a homonym of his Republican competitor to split the votes of this party.

A few days from the mid-term elections on November 3, the polls give a slight advantage to Democratic candidate Mary Peltola, in this traditionally conservative state, in a race that will be decisive for the control of the high-chamber of Congress, currently of a Republican majority.

According to the New York Times, Peltola's campaign conducted polls in the electoral records to find an alias of the acting Republican senator, Dan Sullivan. The candidacy of the homonym, a retired professor living in a fishing village, will have been launched after a conversation with a Democratic consultant.

The DSCC, the body of the Democratic campaign for Senate candidates, will also have participated in these efforts to share support for the Republican senator. Mary Peltola's campaign and the DCSC denied New York Times any involvement in the case.

The New York newspaper stresses that the revelations do not in principle point to any illicit act, but Trump resorted to social networks to classify the actions of Democrats as “illegal”.

“Mary Peltola should bear the legal and political consequences for what she did: a FRAUD AGAINST THE AMERICAN PEOPLE,” Donald Trump said on the Truth Social network. “She should not be allowed to apply, nor should FALSO Dan Sullivan,” he added in a second publication.

The revelations of the New York newspaper come in part from Elisa Rios, a former employee of Mary Peltola's campaign, fired in August along with other team members. The candidate did not participate directly in these actions, but was aware of them, according to the same source.

The paper states that the investigation is based on interviews with several people, messages and documents.

Due to the homonym case, the Justice Department filed a complaint last week to prevent the certification of the Alaska Senate race in case Republican Dan Sullivan loses the election.

Republicans maintain that independent Daniel J. Sullivan is a candidate “planted” by Democrats to divert votes from his candidate, which he denies.

The Alaska Supreme Court rejected a previous Republican attempt to remove Daniel J. Sullivan from the ballot; it was up to the Republican authorities of the state to decide how it would be listed in the document.

You will appear without a party nomination alongside your name, while the senator will be identified as the Republican incumbent.

Alaska's voting system in order of preference will also allow voters to select both candidates if they get confused.

Peltola, who had already served a term in the House of Representatives, was the most voted candidate in the party primary, ahead of Senator Sullivan. Both parties predict that the victory in November will be by a narrow margin, in a state of 738 thousand inhabitants.

The senator obtained more than 68,000 votes in the August primary, while his homonym won 4,107 votes, about 2% of the total.

The Justice Department has been increasingly used to strengthen the political operation of the President, targeting his opponents and moving lawsuits against Democratic-controlled states before the interim.

The Democrats and many defenders of the right to vote have for some time been afraid that the government will try to prevent election certification in which Trump's party will be defeated — as he unsuccessfully tried to do when he lost the White House race to Democrat Joe Biden.

The US Constitution gives states the power to conduct elections.

The final stage of a state election is the formal certification of the winner — an act that the government’s lawsuit seeks to prevent.