Clinton’s former top strategist expresses concern Alaska ballot trick is fraud
"The candidate has no campaign and has disappeared. This is not election high-jinx but outright fraud on the voters. It cannot stand and no one who okayed this should be elected," Penn says
Mark Penn, former strategist for former President Clinton and Hillary Clinton, expressed concerns that the two Sullivan Senate candidates in Alaska is fraudulent.
Incumbent GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan is running against a Democrat with the same name.
"The story of the fake candidacy seems pretty straightforward. The Peltola camp with outreach to the DSCC recruited a fake candidate to confuse voters into voting for the wrong candidate in order to win the election," he wrote on X.
"The candidate has no campaign and has disappeared. This is not election high-jinx but outright fraud on the voters. It cannot stand and no one who okayed this should be elected," he added.
Penn said that ranked-choice voting needs to be repealed in Alaska and elsewhere.
"It is a flawed social science experiment and a testament to how do-gooders can be fooled into backing something so easily manipulated. If you are concerned about candidates below 50 or 40 per cent getting elected then add runoffs - those give people a choice that’s clear and gets explored in an election setting," he wrote.
"Yes, you can complain about others and what they deserve, but it does not excuse this effort now caught red-handed as a blatant attempt to normalize fraud rather than win an election by convincing the voters," he added.