Democrat Mary Peltola's lead over Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska) has grown past the vote total of the second Dan Sullivan on the ballot, so even handing the senator every vote cast for the man Republicans call "Decoy Dan" would no longer put him ahead.
After the Alaska Division of Elections' Nov. 10 update, which covers 401 of the state's 403 precincts, Peltola has 118,926 first-choice votes, or 49%, to Sullivan's 114,676, or 47.2%. Her margin of 4,250 is up from 2,517 a day earlier and from 637 last week, when the count stood at 102,962 to 102,325.
Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., the retired Petersburg schoolteacher whose candidacy is under state and federal investigation, has 4,027 votes. Add all of them to the senator's 114,676 and he reaches 118,703: still 223 votes behind Peltola.
"Dan Sullivan PLUS Dan Sullivan wins the Alaska Election by thousands of votes," President Trump wrote on Truth Social at 7:36 a.m. Eastern on Tuesday. "All votes going to the Fake Dan Sullivan, which was done solely for the purpose of fraud and confusion, should immediately be given to the Real Dan Sullivan (Senator!)" Trump called it a "Rigged Election." Later that day the new ballot drop put Peltola past the combined total.
"It's a total fraud. It's a fraud on the voters."
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