{"id":57623,"date":"2026-10-31T09:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=57623"},"modified":"2026-10-31T09:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T03:49:13","slug":"trump-administration-accelerates-criminal-probe-into-alaska-senate-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/trump-administration-accelerates-criminal-probe-into-alaska-senate-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump administration accelerates criminal probe into Alaska Senate race"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Reuters :<\/strong>\u00a0 President Donald Trump’s administration stepped up criminal and civil investigations \u200binto allegations that Democrats conspired to recruit a spoiler candidate in a critical Senate race in Alaska, officials said on Friday, injecting fresh uncertainty into Tuesday’s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

The top federal \u200cprosecutor in Alaska, US Attorney Michael Heyman, said at a press conference that a Wednesday New York Times article about the effort had driven a “surge” of FBI resources, adding that he had assigned several prosecutors to the case and that investigative steps were taking place “intensely and swiftly.”<\/p>\n

“Every Alaskan deserves a fair election, and they’re going to get one,” he said. “Anyone who tries to illegally deceive voters and interfere with the election, they’ll answer for it.”<\/p>\n

The Alaska contest is widely seen as one \u200bof the US Senate races that could sway control of the chamber, now narrowly held by Trump’s Republicans.<\/p>\n

The Justice Department’s legal actions in Alaska and \u200bCalifornia, where the Trump administration is trying to prevent some ballots from being counted, represent an extraordinary federal intervention in state-run elections, which are administered locally \u2060under the US Constitution.<\/p>\n

When the DOJ filed the civil suit against Alaska a week ago, Trump told reporters, “I’m the one that said do it.”
\nHeyman declined to offer specifics when asked what possible crimes were being \u200bexamined, saying he would let the Alaska investigation proceed, although Trump has called for a prosecution of Senate candidate Mary Peltola, a Democrat.<\/p>\n

“This is voter fraud at the highest level,” Trump told a Florida rally on \u200bFriday. The Department of Justice asked a federal judge on Friday to ensure the preservation of ballots that “may be impacted by voter confusion.” The court filing requested the judge’s help obtaining documents from the Democratic campaign and others to determine “whether Daniel J. Sullivan\u2019s candidacy is frivolous or fraudulent.”<\/p>\n

The DOJ also has sued Alaska to preemptively block the state from certifying the results of the Senate race if the Republican incumbent, Dan S. Sullivan, loses due to the presence of a third candidate, \u200bnamed Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.It is not clear what, if any, laws may have been broken. Both parties have engaged in “ballot stacking” by propping up lesser-known candidates to siphon votes from their opponents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Reuters :\u00a0 President Donald Trump’s administration stepped up criminal and civil investigations \u200binto allegations that Democrats conspired to recruit a spoiler candidate in a critical Senate race in Alaska, officials said on Friday, injecting fresh uncertainty into Tuesday’s midterm elections. The top federal \u200cprosecutor in Alaska, US Attorney Michael Heyman, said at a press conference […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":57624,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57623"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57626,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57623\/revisions\/57626"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}