参议院第二号共和党人物认为，参议院少数党领袖查克·舒默（民主党-纽约州）在阿拉斯加参议院选举中涉嫌展开的阴谋中起了作用。
The Senate’s No. 2 Republican believes that Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., had a hand in the alleged scheme unfolding in the Alaska Senate race.
据《纽约时报》报道，众议员玛丽·佩尔托拉的参议院竞选团队工作人员，以及参议院民主党竞选机构——民主党参议员竞选委员会（DSCC）的高级助手，涉嫌参与制造了本选举周期最离奇的竞争之一：寻找并招募另一位名为丹·沙利文的候选人，对阵现任参议员丹·S·沙利文（共和党-阿拉斯加）。
Operatives for Rep. Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign, along with top aides in Senate Democrats’ campaign apparatus, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee (DSCC), are alleged to have been involved in creating one of the stranger races this election cycle: finding and recruiting another candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against the incumbent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan, R-Alaska, according to reporting from The New York Times.
全国民主党坚称未参与此事，但参议院多数党党鞭约翰·巴拉索（共和党-怀俄明州）在接受福克斯新闻数字频道采访时表示，他认为该竞选活动得到了最高层的帮助。
National Democrats have maintained they had no hand in the move, but Senate Majority Whip John Barrasso, R-Wyo., told Fox News Digital in an interview that he believes the campaign received help from the very top.
“我是说，这是窃取阿拉斯加参议院席位的犯罪行为，现在已彻底曝光，”巴拉索说。“有证据表明佩尔托拉竞选团队知情，而且舒默与他们密谋串通了一年多，试图搜寻并诱使一名丹·沙利文的‘替身’上选票，目的仅仅是欺骗选民。”舒默办公室和佩尔托拉竞选团队未回应福克斯新闻数字频道的置评请求。
"I mean, this is criminal behavior to steal the Alaska Senate race, it's now been fully exposed," Barrasso said. "And there is proof that the Peltola campaign knew about it, and that Schumer schemed and colluded with them for over a year to try to search for and then coax a decoy of Dan Sullivan onto the ballot with a purpose only to deceive the voters." Schumer’s office and Peltola's campaign did not respond to requests for comment from Fox News Digital.
阿拉斯加的这一离奇局面已持续数月，在州和联邦层面引发法律诉讼，并招致全国共和党人的谴责，包括参议员丽莎·穆尔科斯基（共和党-阿拉斯加）。
The peculiar situation in Alaska has been ongoing for months and has sparked legal battles at the state and national levels, as well as condemnation from Republicans across the country, including Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska.
穆尔科斯基在X平台上主张：“选票堆叠不应在我们的选举过程中占有一席之地。”“阿拉斯加人理应从玛丽及其竞选团队那里得到诚实的真相——曝光的事实显示出一种撒谎和掩盖的模式，以及一种欺骗文化，这不属于我们的选举，也不属于我们的民选官员。”
Murkowski argued on X that "ballot-stacking should have no place in our electoral process." "Alaskans deserve the honest truth from Mary and her campaign — what has been revealed is a pattern of lies and coverups and a culture of deception that belongs nowhere in our elections or among our elected officials," she said.
此事引发大量不满，主要是因为阿拉斯加实行排序复选制，这意味着两位名为丹·沙利文的候选人、佩尔托拉和杰拉尔德·海克斯将全部出现在同一张选票上。
Much of the consternation over the matter is because of Alaska’s ranked-choice voting system, meaning that both candidates named Dan Sullivan, Peltola and Gerald Heikes will all appear on the same ballot.
佩尔托拉周四在阿拉斯加朱诺的一次活动中对此表态，告诉支持者她想“澄清事实”。
Peltola weighed in on Thursday at an event in Juneau, Alaska, telling supporters she wanted to "clear the air."
“除了我和现任议员，我对选票上的任何其他候选人一无所知，”佩尔托拉说。“这是我所知道的全部。我对欺骗选民不感兴趣。我知道我能击败丹·沙利文。”
"I knew nothing about any other candidates on the ballot except for me and the incumbent," Peltola said. "That is all I have ever known about. I am not interested in tricking voters. I know I can beat Dan Sullivan."
据称，该计划的目的在于制造选民混淆，让人分不清哪位是哪位沙利文，从而给佩尔托拉带来优势。巴拉索表示，虽然他有信心现任议员沙利文会获胜，但该计划显示“民主党竞选团队暗地里嘲笑阿拉斯加选民如此容易受骗”。“我是说，这些人简直就是卑鄙、下流的无赖——骗子，”巴拉索说。
The point of the scheme was allegedly to sow confusion among voters as to which Sullivan was which in an attempt to give Peltola an edge. Barrasso said that while he was confident the incumbent Sullivan would win, the plan showed that the "Democratic campaign has secretly been making fun of Alaskan voters for being so easily tricked." "I mean, these people just are, you know, dirty, rotten scoundrels — cheaters," Barrasso said.
“民主党在这里所作所为，还有比这更愤世嫉俗的吗？”他继续说道。
"I mean, how more cynical can you get than what the Democrats have done here," he continued.