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Alaska Senate same-name candidate probe

Alaska's Republican governor, Mike Dunleavy, has ordered an investigation into allegations that Democrat Mary Peltola's Senate campaign helped recruit a candidate sharing the same name as Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, potentially to confuse voters. Peltola denied the allegations. Former President Donald Trump called for Peltola to drop out and be prosecuted.

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Republican governor Mike Dunleavy orders the inquiry into whether Mary Peltola’s campaign recruited candidates to draw votes from the Republican incumbent Sign up for the Breaking News US email In a statement posted to social media, Lisa Murkowski , the senior Republican senator from Alaska, condemned Mary Peltola ’s effort to peel votes away from her opponent, Dan Sullivan, by recruiting a candidate into the race w…

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