Who Is Eric Hafner? Democrat on Alaska Ballot Accused of Being GOP Ploy
Eric Hafner is running for Congress from federal prison—again—after Alaska Republicans fought to keep him on the ballot.
Eric Hafner is running for Congress from federal prison—again—after Alaska Republicans fought to keep him on the ballot.
The FBI interviewed former Alaska Republican David Eastman after a Democratic operative allegedly posed as a conservative recruiter in the Senate race.
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) plans to lead Republicans on the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. Murkowski will seek the ranking member position on Appropriations, her office confirmed to The Hill, after current Chair Sen....
Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) is positioning herself to become the top Republican on the Senate Appropriations Committee next year, putting her in line to replace Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) on the influential spending...
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President Donald Trump called for the criminal prosecution of the Democratic candidate running for Senate in Alaska on Wednesday after revelations that her campaign appeared to be involved in recruiting a candidate with the same name as...
Peltola leads by 637, but tens of thousands of ballots are uncounted and second choices are in play. Here’s what each side needs.
Republican Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy calls ranked-choice voting "very confusing" as Mary Peltola leads Dan Sullivan by just 637 votes in Senate race.
Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) provided an update on the Last Frontier’s closely watched Senate race as vote counting continues in the state. “It’s very close,” the Alaska Republican said in an interview with John...
President Trump declared the Senate race in Alaska “over” and his favored candidate Sen. Dan Sullivan to have "won" – even though the the outcome of his race against former Rep. Mary Peltola (D-Ak.) was far from certain.
Alaska's Republican governor is calling for an investigation into an alleged ballot-stacking scheme by putting two Dan Sullivans on the ticket. CBS News' Taurean Small reports, and election expert and contributor David Becker joins to discuss.
Alaskans are voting to choose their next chief executive, with incumbent Gov. Mike Dunleavy (R) term-limited and prevented from seeking another term. The state’s ranked-choice voting system means that Alaskans will see four candidates...
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The threats Republicans are issuing right now are best understood not as fully baked legal theories.
The Republican senator endorsed Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins over Trump-backed Bernadette Wilson a week before Election Day. Trump-backed Alaska gubernatorial candidate Bernadette Wilson slammed Sen. Covered by 3 outlets: 1 lean left, 2 lean right.
Trump-backed Alaska gubernatorial candidate Bernadette Wilson slammed Sen. Lisa Murkowski for endorsing her Democratic opponent, accusing the two of sharing liberal economic policies.
Republican Sen. Murkowski Endorses Democrat For Alaska Governor Authored by Chase Smith via The Epoch Times , Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) has endorsed Democrat Jonathan Kreiss-Tomkins for Alaska governor , backing...
Fox News correspondent Matt Finn speaks with Alaska voters about the controversy surrounding a second candidate named Dan Sullivan on the Senate ballot, as questions persist over how he entered the race. #fox #media #breakingnews #us...
Hans von Spakovsky says Jack Smith's Trump indictment set the precedent for the DOJ's criminal probe into Alaska's "Decoy Dan" Senate race scheme. Covered by 8 outlets: 1 lean left, 1 are centre, 6 lean right.
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After Democrats win Congress, talk grows of a possible third Trump impeachment. His ex-lawyer calls it political revenge, while leaders emphasize oversight and affordability over impeachment.
Iran is reportedly rebuilding its ballistic missile arsenal and strengthening production facilities as tensions with the United States and Israel remain high. Israeli sources estimate that Tehran still possesses more...
The Justice Department is sending more than 20 target and document preservation letters in its investigation into an alleged effort to recruit a second Dan Sullivan to siphon votes from Alaska’s Republican senator,...
Independent candidate Bill Hill is threatening to unseat Trump ally Nick Begich with a message of affordability As Republicans fight to maintain their narrow majority in Congress , they face a unique challenge in Alaska – not from a...
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A competitive Senate race has gripped the once reliably Republican state of Alaska. If Democratic challenger Mary Peltola wins the election against incumbent Republican Senator Dan Sullivan, it could tip the balance of power in...
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Mississippi Republican Sen. Eyes are on the closely divided race, where Democratic challenger Scott Colom is leading GOP Sen. Covered by 27 outlets: 14 lean left, 9 are centre, 3 lean right, 1 are not rated.
A key deadline looms in the still-undecided Senate race between Democrat Scott Colom and Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith.
NN’s Annie Grayer speaks to Mississippi voters in Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith’s hometown of Brookhaven about the close Senate race and why they think the GOP didn’t win in a landslide. Read more here:...
Photo Illustration by Elizabeth Brockway/The Daily Beast/Getty/Reuters As one of Mississippi’s two U.S. senators, Cindy Hyde-Smith received a traditional light blue official form when Scott Colom was nominated to a...
The votes are still being counted in Mississippi, but Democrat Scott Colom is on the cusp of Senate history. Colom’s campaign was stretched for cash, but his cheap and cheerful “pick another protein” ad went viral...
Elie Mystal The Alaska case is a red flag that Trump has no intention of accepting the results of an election that Republicans lose.
Evan Vucci / REUTERS A federal judge has shut down President Donald Trump’s shameless attempt to prevent a humiliating Republican loss. U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason ruled Sunday that the Trump administration could not proceed with...
U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason in Anchorage threw out a lawsuit on November 1, brought by the Department of Justice seeking to block Alaska from certifying a potential loss by incumbent Republican Senator Dan...
Friday on the News Hour, Republicans continue to cry foul in Alaska's Senate race while early voting surges across the country. Six billion dollars hacked in 20 minutes, a record theft involving the world's biggest cryptocurrency...
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The Justice Department has escalated its investigation over a Senate candidate who shares a name with the Republican incumbent, issuing a letter to a prominent Democratic attorney in Washington and others that they may be targets of the...
CNN anchor Pamela Brown seemed taken aback on air after reading President Donald Trump’s latest Truth Social post questioning the results of last week’s midterm elections. The 80-year-old president posted a message...
Democrats in Congress are gearing up to challenge President Donald Trump's education policies, including the dismantling of the U.S. Education Department.
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Still reeling from his party's defeat last week during the U.S. midterm elections, President Donald Trump is now calling for Democratic lawmakers to be investigated by the Department of Justice (DOJ) — before power...
This week on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," with two days to go before the midterm elections, Sen. On this "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" broadcast, Sen. Covered by 3 outlets: 1 lean left, 1 are centre, 1 lean right.
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) said on Sunday he believes Democrats’ alleged conduct in the recent controversy in the Alaska Senate race was “dumb” but “not illegal.” While speaking with Margaret Brennan on Face the...
Transcript: David Becker on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Nov. 1, 2026 CBS News Transcript: Sen. Bernie Sanders on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan," Nov. 1, 2026 CBS News Open: This is "Face the...
Abdul El-Sayed’s election to the Senate is significant not because he shares their religion, Muslim Americans said, but because he prioritizes issues that many voters care about. Days after Republicans suffered major losses in the...
Trump promoted Stephen Miller and backed Joe Gruters after the midterms. Five developments show what those moves leave untouched.
President Trump is set to deliver remarks Friday at the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida, days after Republicans suffered sweeping losses in Tuesday’s midterm elections. His is participating in NASA’s "MAX...
President Donald Trump is sticking with Republican National Committee Chairman Joe Gruters, despite the GOP’s crushing losses on Tuesday. “MAGA Warrior Joe Gruters, who has been with us from the very beginning, is...
Days after Republicans suffered major losses in the midterms, President Trump on Friday endorsed Joe Gruters to continue to chair the Republican National Committee.
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In the battle between Democrats and Republicans for Senate control, the reliably red state of Kansas has moved from the edges to the center of the map. Democrats are up in Michigan, Texas, Kansas, Maine and Ohio, have an edge in Alaska...
The Democratic Party threw its support behind independent Senate candidates in deep-red states, but they came up short.
The Democratic landslide was more about frustration with Trump and Republicans than a Democratic vision and agenda.
The Senate seats Democrats flipped in 2026 span seven states, from Kansas to Maine, ending Republican holds that in some cases lasted decades
President Donald Trump lashed out at the Senate on Friday evening, saying the body is “killing our country” and needs to “act” when it returns for the lame-duck session next week. “The Senate has to act. The Senate...
In the home stretch to the midterms, the Department of Justice has taken to throwing any legal concoction at the wall to see if it will stick. As I wrote last week , the department has devolved from tenuous to utterly groundless legal...
Attorney General Todd Blanche crashed and burned over the weekend while trying to defend the Justice Department’s lawsuit to block Alaska from certifying its Senate election results in the event that Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan...
Donald Trump is stewing about elections big-time. He raged at Senator Lisa Murkowski for opposing his dumb effort to rig the Alaska Senate race, fumed over imagined voter fraud in the midterms, and seethed that the right’s huge loss in...
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The Justice Department said Tuesday it will deploy about 1,000 election monitors to all 50 states for the first time ever to watch the polls. The Department of Justice announced the largest voting-monitoring effort in its history, made...
California Attorney General Rob Bonta is deploying state election observers amid concerns the DOJ's federal monitoring could intimidate voters.
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The US Justice Department announced it was sending 1,000 election monitors and observers to jurisdictions across all 50 states.
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Russian and Ukrainian delegations will meet the US first lady at the White House on Thursday. US First Lady Melania Trump will host officials from Moscow and Kyiv at the White House on Thursday, ahead of talks in Abu Dhabi aimed at...
The first lady’s return to the small screen received a chilly reception.
First lady Melania Trump’s two-part docuseries is set to release Nov. 20, focusing on her return to the White House in 2025. Melania the Series will premiere on Amazon, with a focus on “never-before-told” stories....
The first lady’s return to the small screen received a chilly reception.
Amazon is expanding its Melania Trump project despite the film’s box office falling short of its reported costs.
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The winner will succeed Democratic Gov. Plus, Gov. Covered by 46 outlets: 17 lean left, 13 are centre, 11 lean right, 5 are not rated.
Some of California's most notorious serial killers are among the 548 condemned prisoners whose death sentences Gov. Gavin Newsom plans to commute to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On Thursday night, Andrew Wagner was hit with a bombshell as he casually scrolled through X while taking a break at the gym. His feed was filled with the news that California Gov. Gavin Newsom had commuted the death...
On Thursday, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced that he intends to commute the death sentences of all 548 prisoners on California's death row to life imprisonment without parole.
During the online “Overtime” segment of Friday’s broadcast of HBO’s “Real Time,” host Bill Maher stated that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) commuted all the death sentences in the state to life in prison without...
Marc Elias is back. Covered by 3 outlets: 1 are centre, 2 lean right.
Alaska's Decoy Scandal Brings Back The Usual Suspects For Shady Election Tactics Authored by Jonathan Turley via JonathanTurley.org , Below is my column on the return of Marc Elias in another campaign controversy...
Marc Elias is back. The notorious Democratic lawyer who played a critical role in the 2016 Russia hoax is again in the news. His law firm has been identified by the New York Times as part of the expanding scandal...
Alaska voters will head to the polls to choose their lone U.S. representative on Tuesday, with incumbent Rep. Nick Begich (R) seeking reelection after he defeated former Rep. Mary Peltola (D), who is currently running for U.S. Senate,...