US midterm election 2026: Will Alaska polls be called off? What will happen on results day?

Alaska election 2026: The US Justice Department on Thursday filed a revised complaint seeking to block certification of Alaska's election results if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses narrowly, citing a New York Times report that Democratic operatives recruited a candidate who shares Sullivan's name.

The US Justice Department has escalated its investigation into the candidacy of an Alaska Senate candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent, Dan Sullivan, issuing more than 40 subpoenas and requests to preserve documents with more expected, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday.

Recipients of the subpoenas included the campaigns of Republican challenger, Dan J. Sullivan, and Democratic nominee Mary Peltola, the source said. The New York Times reported on Wednesday that Peltola's campaign was involved in recruiting Dan J. Sullivan into the race.


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The Justice Department is escalating a criminal investigation over an Alaska Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan, issuing a raft of new grand jury subpoenas, a person familiar with the matter told The Associated Press on Thursday. The subpoenas were issued after The New York Times reported that Democratic candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign appeared to be involved in recruiting Dan J. Sullivan Jr. as part of an alleged effort to confuse voters in the hotly contested race.

President Donald Trump, meanwhile, campaigned in South Carolina for the second time this month to rally Republican support for Darline Graham as she spends the final days of the midterm election trying to fend off a robust challenge from Democrat Annie Andrews for a critical U.S. Senate seat. Andrews has mounted an unexpectedly competitive race against Graham.

With a handful of campaign stops left on Trump’s schedule, the president converted a planned event in Kansas into a virtual tele-rally. Trump plans to hold more than 20 tele-rallies before Tuesday’s election day, according to the White House. GOP Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall faces an extraordinarily competitive race for reelection against Democrat and Methodist megachurch pastor Adam Hamilton.

President Donald Trump's administration has opened a criminal investigation in its campaign to prove thousands of noncitizens are on California's voter rolls and issued federal grand jury subpoenas to local election officials, The New York Times reported on Thursday. The newspaper cited people with knowledge of the matter and copies of subpoenas that it obtained.