Sep 3, 2026
Alaska’s Senate race has turned into one of the strangest stories of the midterms: a second candidate named Dan Sullivan has qualified for the ranked-choice general election, drawing comparisons to the Republican incumbent with the same name, raising questions about who recruited him and why.
On Politically Unstable, Kelly Sadler asks Honest Elections Project’s Jason Snead the question Alaska voters can’t shake: Is “Decoy Dan” Sullivan really a Democratic plant designed to split the Republican vote?