Midterms: Donald Trump wants Dan Sullivan to get Dan Sullivan's votes

From Trump's point of view, votes that were not cast for him but for his namesake should be attributed to the Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan. They should go to the “REAL” Dan Sullivan immediately, Trump wrote on the Truth Social platform. Then the Republican would “win easily.”

Trump thus renewed the accusation that the candidate Dan J. Sullivan was put on the ballot so that the Republican incumbent Dan S. Sullivan would lose votes due to the risk of confusion. In Alaska there is a close race for the US Senate seat between incumbent Sullivan and Democrat Mary Peltola, who is currently only 0.3 percentage points ahead of him, according to the AP news agency. Dan J. Sullivan is at 1.7 percent. Vote counting there can take several days because there are many remote areas in the northernmost state.

Before the midterm elections, Trump had also accused the Democrats of “voter fraud” in order to enable their Senate candidate Mary Peltola to win. On Tuesday's election day, Republican Sullivan spoke of the "biggest voter fraud scandal in the history of the state of Alaska."

Shortly before the election, the New York Times reported that Democratic employees were specifically looking for candidates with the same name in order to steal votes from the Republican senator. This includes retired teacher Daniel J. Sullivan from a remote fishing village, who had not previously appeared as a politician. Peltola, a Democrat, rejected the allegations.