{"id":80634,"date":"2026-10-29T08:55:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:55:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/alaska-governor-orders-investigation-into-democrat-mary-peltolas-senate-campaign\/"},"modified":"2026-10-29T08:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T13:55:08","slug":"alaska-governor-orders-investigation-into-democrat-mary-peltolas-senate-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/alaska-governor-orders-investigation-into-democrat-mary-peltolas-senate-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska governor orders investigation into Democrat Mary Peltola\u2019s Senate campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Mike Dunleavy plans search after Peltola accused of recruiting Dan Sullivan to confuse voters<\/p>\n<p>The Republican governor of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/alaska\">Alaska<\/a> announced plans to launch a criminal investigation after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/10\/28\/us\/politics\/alaska-dan-sullivan-conspiracy-peltola.html\">a report<\/a> accused the campaign of Democratic senate candidate Mary Peltola of trying to confuse voters by recruiting a candidate with the same name as her opponent.<\/p>\n<p>Governor <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/govdunleavy\/status\/2115669883149222169\">Mike Dunleavy wrote<\/a> on social media that he was \u201cdirecting the Department of Public Safety to investigate whether this scheme violated Alaska\u2019s laws and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/oct\/29\/midterm-elections-politics-trump-obama-california-alaska-latest-news-updates\">whether criminal charges or civil action are warranted<\/a>\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/29\/alaska-investigation-mary-peltola-dan-sullivan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republican Mike Dunleavy plans search after Peltola accused of recruiting Dan Sullivan to confuse voters The Republican governor of Alaska announced plans to launch a criminal investigation after a report accused the campaign of Democratic senate candidate Mary Peltola of trying to confuse voters by recruiting a candidate with the same name as her opponent. &#8230; <a title=\"Alaska governor orders investigation into Democrat Mary Peltola\u2019s Senate campaign\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/29\/alaska-governor-orders-investigation-into-democrat-mary-peltolas-senate-campaign\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alaska governor orders investigation into Democrat Mary Peltola\u2019s Senate campaign\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}