AMERICANALMANAC (Jonah Adams) - Three Dan Sullivans and one Alaska Senate seat: how a same-name challenger turned a primary into a legal and federal mess
Former Anchorage Mayor Dan A. Sullivan has endorsed incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan over a third Dan Sullivan in Alaska's Senate race, a contest now tangled in court rulings, a federal investigation, and unresolved vote counts. The former mayor posted on social media ahead of the primary, branding himself "the OG Dan Sullivan" and urging […] The post Three Dan Sullivans and one Alaska Senate seat: how a same-name challenger turned a primary into a legal and federal mess appeared first on American Almanac .
Former Anchorage Mayor Dan A. Sullivan has endorsed incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan over a third Dan Sullivan in Alaska's Senate race, a contest now tangled in court rulings, a federal investigation, and unresolved vote counts. The former mayor posted on social media ahead of the primary, branding himself "the OG Dan Sullivan" and urging Alaskans to back the sitting senator. His endorsement landed in a race that already featured two candidates with nearly identical names on the same ballot, a situation Republicans say was engineered by Democrats to siphon votes from the incumbent. The third man in the mix, Dan J. Sullivan, is a retired teacher from Petersburg, Alaska. He filed to run as a Republican, and his presence on the ballot set off…Open