With his silence, Sullivan endorses Trump's corrupt election tampering scheme

With his silence, Sen. Dan Sullivan showed Friday he supports the corrupt Trump claim that Mary Peltola should not serve in the U.S. Senate even if she wins the November 3 election.

“I think Alaskans can tell the difference between a Democrat sideshow and a strong record of delivering for Alaskans,” Sullivan, who skipped the AFN candidate forum, told the Wall Street Journal. Sullivan claims he won’t take a position on Trump’s tampering.

“So what I support is fair and free elections, election integrity in Alaska, and as (state) attorney general I worked on those issues.”

Sure you do Dan. I said here Friday that Sullivan, Sen. Nick Begich the Third, Gov. Mike Dunleavy and the acting attorney general would denounce Trump’s corruption if they had an ounce of integrity.

Sulllivan, Begich the Third, Dunleavy, the acting attorney general and the rest of the Federal Overreach Chorus failed to register on the scales.

This is how we lose the ability to govern ourselves.

Sullivan has claimed for months that the Alaska Supreme Court was wrong in allowing Sullivan, Dan J. Jr. on the ballot, making the same limp arguments that populate Trump’s addled attack on Alaska elections. Sullivan now claims he has no opinion on Trump’s election interference.

Sen. Lisa Murkowski, who does not suffer from the same disease as Sullivan, Begich the Third, Dunleavy and the rest of the gang, condemned Trump’s election tampering.

This is how the candidates are listed on the ballot. Only a fool could confuse the two Sullivans.

Alaskans don’t need any help voting for their preferred candidates, and the State of Alaska has already handled this by clearly distinguishing the candidates on this year’s ballot. The Department of Justice should never have filed this lawsuit,” Murkowski said.

In a brainless Wall Street Journal editorial that is clearly the work of WSJ Wasilla carpetbagger Kimberley Strassel, the newspaper blessed Trump’s corrupt tactic by saying “its real purpose before the election is to educate Alaska voters now beginning to pay attention about the Democratic trick.”

That is complete nonsense. Trump is desperate to save his hide. That’s the purpose of his corrupt lawsuit, not to educate anyone.

He will attack any election result that does not favor Republicans and will claim the results are rigged. It’s as obvious as his pandering promises to give people $5,000 if they vote right. Trump’s setting the stage to declare the Alaska election and every other election was stolen.

Only a fool could confuse the two Sullivans because of the way they are listed on the ballot.

There is Sullivan, Dan. S. (Registered Republican) Incumbent and Sullivan, Daniel J. Jr.

Sullivan’s silence in the face of Trump’s attack on Alaska will benefit Peltola by giving her a powerful closing argument in the U.S. Senate campaign about—Sullivan is complicit in the political corruption scheme created by a desperate man trying to save himself.

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