Milqtoast Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso is not known for wild claims. When the Wyoming Republican, the No. 2 man in the GOP conference, publicly accuses Chuck Schumer of spending more than a year colluding with Mary Peltola’s campaign to plant a decoy candidate named Dan Sullivan on the Alaska ballot, it is worth paying attention.
The Gateway Pundit reported the charge on October 30, and Fox News confirmed Barrasso’s interview. The point of the scheme, Barrasso said, was pure deception under Alaska’s ranked-choice system.
“I mean, this is criminal behavior to steal the Alaska Senate race, it’s now been fully exposed. And there is proof that the Peltola campaign knew about it, and that Schumer schemed and colluded with them for over a year to try to search for and then coax a decoy of Dan Sullivan onto the ballot with a purpose only to deceive the voters.”
Barrasso called the Democrats involved “dirty, rotten scoundrels — cheaters.” He added that the operation showed the campaign had “secretly been making fun of Alaskan voters for being so easily tricked.” Schumer’s office and Peltola’s campaign did not respond to Fox News Digital’s requests for comment.
The accusation lands on top of a New York Times investigation that detailed what campaign aides internally called the “ballot composition project.” Starting in the summer of 2025, Peltola staffers were instructed to hunt for other Alaskans named Dan Sullivan. They eventually landed on Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a retired schoolteacher from the remote fishing community of Petersburg.
The effort involved Peltola’s team, senior aides at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and lawyers connected to the Elias Law Group. Operatives used fake names, cover stories, and trips across the state to recruit spoilers whose only job was to dilute votes for the real Sen. Dan S. Sullivan.
Peltola tried to “clear the air” at an event in Juneau. She insisted, “I knew nothing about any other candidates on the ballot except for me and the incumbent. That is all I have ever known about. I am not interested in tricking voters. I know I can beat Dan Sullivan.”
Her former campaign manager, Elisa Rios, told the Times the opposite. Rios said Peltola was “definitely aware” of the effort. Text messages and documents prepared for a potential lawsuit backed the broader coordination. One DSCC staffer celebrated in an internal chat when a court put “Other Dan” back on the ballot.
Alaska’s Division of Elections had already removed Daniel J. Sullivan from the primary after finding a “preponderance of the evidence” that his name and sudden Republican registration were chosen to confuse voters. He had never previously been affiliated with the GOP, tried to list himself as “Dan S. Sullivan,” and built materials that mimicked the incumbent’s.
The Alaska Supreme Court ordered him restored, ruling that state law does not require candidates to run in good faith. On the general ballot he appears as “Sullivan, Daniel J. Jr.” while the senator is listed as the Republican incumbent. Under ranked-choice voting, every confused first-choice vote for the wrong Sullivan can still reorder the race.
Governor Mike Dunleavy ordered the Department of Public Safety to investigate whether criminal charges or civil action are warranted.
“Deliberately tricking voters into casting their ballots for someone else strikes at the integrity of our elections,” he said, according to the New York Post.
President Trump called it election fraud and said both Peltola and the “FAKE Dan Sullivan” should face consequences. The Justice Department has already sued to block certification if the decoy costs the real Sullivan the race. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, no fire-breather, broke her silence to declare that “ballot-stacking should have no place in our electoral process” and that Alaskans deserve the truth about “a pattern of lies and coverups.”
Sen. Ron Johnson’s Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations has issued records-preservation demands to figures tied to the recruitment effort, as The Federalist reported. The paper trail includes DSCC staffers and Elias-linked lawyers. Earlier reporting had already tied an Anchorage figure who filed Decoy Dan’s paperwork to circles that appeared in Schumer-aligned advertising.
This is not ordinary hardball. Searching voter rolls for a namesake, coaxing him onto the ballot with the explicit purpose of deception, then denying it while the evidence piles up, is an admission that the campaign believes Alaskan voters are marks.
He that worketh deceit shall not dwell within my house: he that telleth lies shall not tarry in my sight.
The ranked-choice system makes the trick more potent, but the contempt is the same whether the ballot is ranked or simple plurality. If Barrasso is right that the scheme ran through Schumer for more than a year, the question is no longer whether Democrats tried to steal the race. It is whether anyone will be held to account before the votes are counted.
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