Chuck Schumer has never let a Senate seat slip away without trying something underhanded to get it back.
Trump called him out on Truth Social this week and told Alaskans exactly what is happening to their race.
What the evidence shows about Schumer's fingerprints on this operation was hiding in plain sight all along.
Decoy Dan Sullivan Admitted He Was Never Running to Win
Republican Sen. Dan S. Sullivan is on today's ballot in Alaska seeking a third term – and so is a retired fifth-grade teacher from Petersburg with the same name.
Dan J. Sullivan filed to run as a Republican and initially requested to appear on the ballot as "Dan S. Sullivan" – the senator's exact name format.
Alaska election officials removed him in June, finding the candidacy was not filed in good faith.
A court put him back.
The Alaska Supreme Court kept him there.
Then the fake Sullivan admitted in an interview he never planned to file with the Federal Election Commission and was only forced to do so after legal fees mounted.
"Fraud Sullivan has confirmed what we have said from the start, which is that his only purpose is to deceive Alaska voters," NRSC spokesman Nick Puglia said.
President Trump made it official late last week, posting on Truth Social a ballot image with a red X over the fake Sullivan and a gold "Trump Endorsed" badge next to the senator's name.
"Because of the trickery in the Voting, the Crooked, Radical Left Dumocrats have put up another man named 'Dan Sullivan,' and they did this to take Votes away from our Great Senator of the same name," Trump wrote.
"Democrats are trying to 'trick' Alaskans, and treat Alaskan Voters with contempt."
The Anchorage Address That Connects Decoy Dan Sullivan to Chuck Schumer and Mary Peltola
When the fake Sullivan launched his campaign, a Democrat strategist's name showed up as the author of his announcement press release.
That strategist was Amber Lee, who has publicly stated she wants Peltola to win the Senate seat.
Her consulting firm, Amber Lee Strategies, received fees for "PAC Strategy Consulting" from a super PAC built specifically to support Mary Peltola.
Alan Harris – the man who walked the fake Sullivan's declaration of candidacy into Alaska election offices – is Amber Lee's romantic partner.
His moving company and her consulting firm are registered to the same residential address in Anchorage.
Fifteen days after Harris delivered that paperwork, Majority Forward – the nonprofit affiliate of Chuck Schumer's Senate Majority PAC – began running a television ad featuring a man identified only as "Alan" from "Anchorage" attacking Sen. Dan Sullivan.
That man was Alan Harris.
Schumer's representatives denied any coordination with the fake Sullivan campaign nine days before that ad began airing.
"As we have said from the start, Democrats like Mary Peltola and Chuck Schumer recruited Fraud Dan Sullivan to rig Alaska's U.S. Senate race. The evidence is mounting, undeniable, and hiding in plain sight," NRSC spokesman Nick Puglia said.
The NRSC has filed three separate complaints with the Federal Election Commission over the fake Sullivan's candidacy.
Peltola herself was in Petersburg – the fake Sullivan's hometown – just days before he announced his candidacy.
How the Decoy Dan Sullivan Scheme Hands Mary Peltola the Alaska Senate Race
Alaska's open primary puts every candidate on one ballot regardless of party – Democrat voters can vote for Decoy Dan in the primary and help push him into the top four candidates who advance to the general election.
Under a traditional partisan primary, that help would be worthless – only Republicans would decide the Republican nominee.
Alaska's system makes that help the entire point.
If Decoy Dan advances to the ranked-choice November general election, a Republican voter who intends to rank the senator first but accidentally marks the retired teacher from Petersburg has just handed his first-choice vote to the wrong man.
That ballot is not recoverable – and every confused vote that lands on the wrong Sullivan is a vote that does not go to the senator.
Peltola has outraised the senator $18.5 million to $11.7 million.
Outside Democrat groups have already poured more than $4.5 million into Alaska.
Cook Political Report shifted Alaska from Safe Republican to Toss-Up, citing the Decoy Dan ballot chaos as the final push.
Democrats need to flip four Republican Senate seats to take the majority.
Alaska was not supposed to be one of them.
The fake Dan Sullivan was how they planned to change that.
Trump told Alaskans exactly which Sullivan deserves their vote: "SULLIVAN, DAN S. – REGISTERED REPUBLICAN/INCUMBENT."
The senator who backed Trump through three election wins and helped secure eleven new Arctic Security Cutter Icebreakers – the first purchased in more than forty years.
That Dan Sullivan.
Not Schumer's.
Sources:
- Michael Katz, "Trump: Democrats Using 'Trickery' in Alaska Senate Race," Newsmax, August 17, 2026.
- Nick Puglia, "Chuck Schumer's Fingerprints Are All Over Fraud Dan Sullivan," NRSC Press Release, July 24, 2026.
- Nick Puglia, "Fraud Dan Sullivan Admits He Has Zero Intention of Being a Real Candidate," NRSC Press Release, July 31, 2026.
- "Alaska Official Boots Same-Name Challenger to Sen. Dan Sullivan from Ballot," Fox News, June 15, 2026.
- "Alaska Senate Primary Tests Sullivan-Peltola Race," Washington Examiner, August 18, 2026.
- "Ranked Choice Voting Adds Wrinkle for GOP in Alaska's U.S. Senate Race," Washington Times, February 16, 2026.