A Plan for Two Dans: How Democrats Manipulated Alaska’s Ballot
29 October - 26 minsAn investigation from The New York Times has uncovered how two candidates named Dan Sullivan ended up on the ballot for U.S. Senate in Alaska and the secret role that Democrats played in making it happen.
Kellen Browning, a political reporter for The Times, takes us inside the political scheme and explains what it means for a race that could determine which party controls the Senate.
Guest: Kellen Browning, a political reporter for The New York Times in San Francisco.
Background reading:
Inside Democrats’ secret effort to stack Alaska’s ballot.After The Times’s article, the governor of Alaska ordered an investigation into Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign over its role in recruiting spoile...
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