Donald Trump has again expressed his belief that Mary Peltola should be criminally prosecuted and disqualified from the race for the Senate in Alaska, The Guardian reports. Trump labelled the alleged plan by Peltola’s campaign as "election fraud of the highest order".
"She should be taken off the ballot and criminally prosecuted, as should the fake Dan Sullivan," Trump said. He added: "I think that is a crime, what they did." Peltola’s campaign allegedly hired a man who shares the same name as her Republican opponent, Dan Sullivan, to siphon off his votes.
Meanwhile, a new CNN poll shows Democrats have a significant lead in key Senate races in Texas and Michigan, while closer contests are predicted in Kansas and Maine. In Texas, the poll suggests 49 per cent of likely voters would support James Talaric, the Democratic candidate, while Republican Ken Paxton would receive 43 per cent.
Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican candidate for governor of Ohio, confirmed on Thursday that his campaign is no longer airing an attack ad featuring the estranged mother of his Democratic opponent, Dr Amy Acton. The ad sparked a wave of outrage because Acton’s mother, Donna Arthur, lost custody of her daughter in 1978, when her second husband, Cledith Arthur, was accused of raping her daughter between the ages of 10 and 12. Asked in Vandalia, Ohio, whether the campaign had stopped airing the spot, Ramaswamy said: "It played out to the end and we put four o..."
Hakeem Jeffries posted on social media: "Vivek Ramaswamy just pulled his sick ad. These MAGA extremists are running. Keep. Putting. Pressure."
Abdul El-Sayed, the Senate candidate in Michigan, will campaign in Detroit on Sunday with Haley Stevens, the congresswoman he narrowly defeated in August to secure the Democratic nomination. The joint appearance by El-Sayed and Stevens is the first since they held a joint breakfast of Democratic unity a few days after the August primaries. The pair are reportedly joined by Jim Clyburn, the influential Black congressman from South Carolina who supported and campaigned for Stevens in the primaries, at a get-out-the-vote event at a church in Detroit.
Stevens appeared on CNN on Wednesday evening and said that, unlike her fiancé, she would vote for El-Sayed. She expressed what she calls reservations among Black and Jewish voters who supported her in the primaries. She urged El-Sayed to remove one jokey ad in which Tucker Carlson says he will not vote for Rogers, and to condemn another ad by an outside group founded by commentator Cenk Uygur, which blames US aid to Israel for high food prices. El-Sayed’s campaign has already stated that the second ad, which Uygur, the uncle of streamer Hasan Piker, posted online last week, is "in no way connected" to him or his candidacy. The ad was not even made in support of El-Sayed, but was a rework of one originally produced in 2024 for Uygur’s own, short-lived presidential campaign.
Stevens’ fiancé, Jason Turkish, appeared on Wednesday at a campaign event for Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers in Michigan and told reporters that he is voting for the Republican, not for El-Sayed.
Tom Hoyle was removed from the scene with the help of three Secret Service agents after comparing Trump’s supporters to a cult in a live interview for Fox News, ahead of the president’s rally in South Carolina. Trump, for his part, attacked a Reuters reporter who asked him why he had just cancelled a planned appearance at a rally in Kansas on Saturday in support of Republican Senator Dr Roger Marshall. "It is sick that you are asking that question," Trump told the Reuters reporter.
