Todd Blanche on Face the Nation

    by Flint: Dan J. Sullivan

    Blanche opened on Face the Nation by telling Brennan straight: what she told viewers was misleading at best, a lie in practice. There aren't two Dan Sullivans, one sitting and one running. The Alaska Election Commission's own head, not President Trump and not Blanche, has stated the second Dan Sullivan exists on the ballot to sow confusion and siphon votes off the incumbent senator. And the DOJ suit isn't a federal power grab over how Alaska picks or certifies a senator. The court is being asked to do what the Alaska Supreme Court wouldn't: read federal law and, if it comes to it, leave Alaska a route to determine who gets certified as the winner. He'd already taken the fight to Dana Bash on CNN before landing on CBS, blasting the network for treating a decoy as innocent coincidence, a guy whose Republican registration landed two days ahead of filing and who borrowed the incumbent's middle initial "S." Trump had been calling the travesty out for months, per Blanche, and DOJ had spent that same stretch reviewing it under federal law before acting earlier this week or late last week. Legacy media is in on the fraud.

    Transcript (en)

    Well, first of all, let me correct you, okay? You described facts that were just simply either at best misleading, but really a lie to your viewers. It's not two Dan Sullivans, one an incumbent and one running. That's not true. The head of the Alaska Election Commission, not President Trump, not me, has said that the second Dan Sullivan is running solely to confuse voters, solely to pull votes away from the incumbent senator, okay? So that is something that we're dealing with. It's not just two Dan Sullivans running on the ballot in Alaska. That is not true. And second, President Trump has been talking about what a travesty this is for many, many, many months. And the Department of Justice has been looking at it for many, many, many months, as we should under federal law. And you saw what we did earlier this week, late last week. And it's not to let the federal government take over the Alaska system of selecting their next senator or certifying who's going to be senator. IT'S NOT THE PARTY OF THE COURT. IT'S NOT THE PARTY OF THE COURT. IT'S ASKING THE COURT TO STEP IN WHERE THE ALASKA SUPREME COURT DIDN'T, WHICH IS TO LOOK AT FEDERAL LAW AND IF NECESSARY TO ALLOW A PROCESS