{"id":80692,"date":"2026-10-30T10:54:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/alaska-democrat-says-she-knew-nothing-about-effort-to-put-two-dan-sullivans-on-ballot\/"},"modified":"2026-10-30T10:54:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-30T15:54:56","slug":"alaska-democrat-says-she-knew-nothing-about-effort-to-put-two-dan-sullivans-on-ballot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/alaska-democrat-says-she-knew-nothing-about-effort-to-put-two-dan-sullivans-on-ballot\/","title":{"rendered":"Alaska Democrat says she \u2018knew nothing\u2019 about effort to put two Dan Sullivans on ballot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senate candidate Mary Peltola speaks out as US justice department escalates criminal investigation <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/29\/alaska-senate-race-ballot-stacking-allegation-explained\">Alaska Senate race: what to know about Democrats\u2019 alleged ballot-stacking effort<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Mary Peltola has denied that she knew anything about an effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent, as the US justice department escalated a criminal investigation this week with new grand jury subpoenas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just want to clear the air,\u201d the Democratic Senate candidate said on Thursday at the top of a speech in a downtown bar in Juneau, Alaska\u2019s capital. \u201cI knew nothing about any other candidate on the ballot except for me and the incumbent. That is all I have ever known about. I am not interested in tricking voters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/30\/alaska-democrat-senate-mary-peltola-dan-sullivan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senate candidate Mary Peltola speaks out as US justice department escalates criminal investigation Alaska Senate race: what to know about Democrats\u2019 alleged ballot-stacking effort Mary Peltola has denied that she knew anything about an effort to put another candidate on the Alaska ballot with the same name as the Republican incumbent, as the US justice &#8230; <a title=\"Alaska Democrat says she \u2018knew nothing\u2019 about effort to put two Dan Sullivans on ballot\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/30\/alaska-democrat-says-she-knew-nothing-about-effort-to-put-two-dan-sullivans-on-ballot\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alaska Democrat says she \u2018knew nothing\u2019 about effort to put two Dan Sullivans on ballot\">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-80692","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\/80692","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=80692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80692\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}