By investigating an Alaska Democratic Senate hopeful over her campaign’s reported involvement in recruiting a candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent, President Donald Trump’s administration is targeting a political trick that has been used in American politics for decades.
The practice goes back at least to 1946, when a four-term Boston city councilman named Joe Russo ran in a Democratic primary for a congressional seat against a 27-year-old janitor with the same name. He was recruited to the ticket by supporters of the third candidate in the race and its eventual winner, John F. Kennedy.
In Alaska,
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