Election 2026 Alaska Senate
Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola speaks during a campaign event Thursday, Oct. 29, 2026, in Juneau, Alaska.
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Alaska’s Republican-run state government is urging a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed at President Donald Trump’s direction to stop the certification of a possible Democratic win in that state’s pivotal U.S. Senate race. The scathing filing from the state’s attorney general’s office calls the government's arguments "meritless." It comes as a federal judge set a Saturday deadline for arguments over whether she should dismiss the lawsuit without even a hearing. The complaint from the U.S. Department of Justice demands that ballots be set aside to determine whether voters were confused by the presence of a second candidate on the ballot with the same name as Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan.
