A top House Republican said there’s a “big possibility” that Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola won’t be seated if she wins her Senate race on Tuesday.
The former congresswoman’s campaign has been engulfed by a scandal over allegations that her staff shopped for a candidate with the same name as her GOP opponent, Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-Alaska), in a deliberate effort to confuse voters.
During a Sunday morning Fox News appearance, House Oversight Committee Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) was asked whether Senate Republicans might refuse to seat Peltola if she won the election.
Kudlow: “Is it possible if Peltola wins she won’t be seated?”
Rep. James Comer: “That’s a big possibility.” https://t.co/t5wCaowrdy
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“That’s a big possibility. I have not spoken to Sen. Thune about that,” Comer told “Sunday Morning Futures” host Larry Kudlow, referring to Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD).
“We kind of tend to operate within the confinement of the House with respect to our investigations, but at the end of the day, I think the American people can see loud and clear what was done here,” he said.
“The fact that The New York Times broke the story — and good for The New York Times, I don’t say that very often — but good for them on a quality investigative piece here,” Comer added.
Last week, the much-maligned paper dropped the bombshell that Peltola’s team worked to recruit the “spoiler candidate” to trick Alaskan voters, finding a retired teacher named Dan J. Sullivan from a remote fishing village in the state’s panhandle.
While Peltola has denied having anything to do with what has been dubbed the “Decoy Dan” scandal, the trickery has upended the unexpectedly close race in the northern state, a GOP stronghold.
Comer’s remarks came the same day that a federal judge dismissed a Trump administration lawsuit seeking to delay certification of the Alaska contest.
BREAKING: A judge in Alaska has thrown out the Trump administration’s lawsuit seeking to delay certification of the Senate election if GOP incumbent Dan Sullivan loses.
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“More fundamentally, the United States provides no workable plan as to how it proposes to segregate ballots cast for Daniel J. Sullivan on Election Day and then conduct a court-ordered unspecified ‘investigation’ of those ballots in a manner that would preserve voter secrecy,” wrote U.S. District Judge Sharon Gleason, a Barack Obama appointee.
“The court dismissed the case on procedural grounds but did not dispute the argument of the United States that Daniel J. Sullivan (a/k/a Decoy Dan) entered the race as a frivolous candidate to confuse voters,” a Justice Department spokesperson said, according to The Hill.
The Trump administration plans to appeal the ruling.
“We cannot allow this to happen. And the fact that there are a lot of people involved in the Democrat National Party who have been silent on this, and the question remains: Who all was involved? When did this involvement begin? Did money change hands? That’s a big question,” the Oversight Committee boss told Kudlow.
“That’s probably the biggest question that needs to be answered. Did money change hands? And then you know what laws were broken after that?” Comer asked.
Trump has called for Peltola to be criminally prosecuted.
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