Sullivan tries to distract from Peltola's primary victory

The Mensa members in Sen. Dan Sullivan’s campaign coterie think that the people who voted for Petersburg Dan Sullivan are so stupid that they voted for the wrong Sullivan by mistake.

Were it not for all those dumbbells who couldn’t or didn’t read the ballot, Sullivan would only be about 4,000 votes behind Mary Peltola, instead of 7,000, according to the Sullivan, Dan S. (Registered Republican) Incumbent camp.

My guess is that nearly all of the 3,325 votes tallied so far for Sullivan, Daniel J. Jr. were protest votes, generated in large part by the stupid attacks against him by Sullivan, Dan S. (Registered Republican) Incumbent, Trump and the Republican Party.

The worldwide publicity made it almost impossible for Alaska voters to not know about the dueling Sullivans. Sullivan, Daniel J. Jr. became a household name in Alaska in a couple of months.

Powerful politicians declared him a menace and he developed a following. The protest votes he collected, which were anti-incumbent votes, are going to largely be Peltola votes in November.

Sullivan, Dan S. (Registered Republican) Incumbent and his backers are trying to trick people into thinking that his loss to Peltola was not a loss at all, but the result of a scam engineered by Chuck Schumer and George Soros.

The Sullivan, Dan S. campaign will do anything it can right now to divert attention away from Sullivan’s poor showing and the possibility that Peltola could wind up with more than 50 percent of the vote. She emerged from the election stronger. The incumbent emerged weaker.

Sullivan, Dan S. is getting his national backers, like Sen. Tom Cotton, to spread this nonsense. Cotton didn’t look at any of the numbers from the election and doesn’t understand that ranked choice voting did not come into play here. He’s selling the story that stupid voters tricked by devious Democrats are the main reason that Sullivan lost.

In the meantime, the Trump Department of Justice is trying to help Sullivan by targeting Petersburg Sullivan with its baseless claims that it is a crime for anyone else named Dan Sullivan to run for the U.S. Senate.

It’s part of the Trump pattern, encouraged by Sen. Dan Sullivan, of turning the justice system into a means of punishing political enemies, ignoring the rule of law.

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