Alaska officials said new revelations in The New York Times about efforts by Democrats to recruit a Senate candidate with the same name as GOP incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan do not change the state’s opposition to a Trump administration lawsuit seeking to potentially delay certification of the election.
The Times story, a spokesperson for the Alaska Department of Law told CNN in an email, confirms the “initial concerns” election officials had about the candidacy of Daniel J. Sullivan, a retired teacher, but it has “no impact on the current litigation.”
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