Alaska Senate election: Governor orders probe of alleged effort to recruit second Dan Sullivan

Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy ordered an investigation into whether the alleged recruitment of a candidate named Dan Sullivan for the state's U.S. Senate race, where the incumbent shares the same name, violated laws. Dunleavy's order late Wednesday was in response to a report by The New York Times Wednesday that people in the campaign of Democratic nominee Mary Peltola and senior advisors at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee worked to recruit retired schoolteacher Dan Sullivan to run to draw votes from Sen. Dan Sullivan. Peltola's campaign and the DSCC, in response to the Times article, said they are not involved in the campaign of the retired teacher Sullivan.