Republican senator Dan Sullivan says he will accept Alaska election results

Senator Dan Sullivan, the Alaska Republican seeking reelection, told CNN's Jake Tapper that he will accept the outcome of the upcoming vote whether or not he wins. The pledge comes amid fallout from a New York Times investigation, which found that staffers working for his Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, enlisted a man with the same name as the senator to run, apparently hoping to siphon votes away from him, according to The Guardian.

After the revelations, GOP figures, including Donald Trump, urged that Peltola be removed from the contest and face criminal charges. Peltola has maintained that she knew nothing about such a plan. Speaking to a reporter at a campaign stop, she said she had "no idea" whether anyone on her team took part.

Sullivan told Tapper he was not concentrating on possible legal action against the Peltola campaign and wanted instead to beat her at the ballot box. Even so, he voiced skepticism about her denial, asserting that she was not being honest with Alaskans and, in his words, guaranteeing that she was misleading them at that very moment.

Summarized by PolitiKool from The Guardian’s reporting. Read the full story at The Guardian →