{"id":894366,"date":"2026-10-25T17:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894366\/"},"modified":"2026-10-25T17:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-25T17:44:13","slug":"midterm-election-latest-trump-heads-to-michigan-blanche-defends-alaska-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/894366\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterm election latest: Trump heads to Michigan; Blanche defends Alaska lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u2018What\u2019s the crime?\u2019: Bash presses Blanche over Alaska election lawsuit\n <\/p>\n

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\u2018What\u2019s the crime?\u2019: Bash presses Blanche over Alaska election lawsuit<\/p>\n

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\n Attorney General Todd Blanche this morning forcefully denied that the Justice Department\u2019s lawsuit<\/a> seeking to block certification of Alaska\u2019s US Senate election if GOP Sen. Dan Sullivan loses amounts to President Donald Trump laying the groundwork to potentially overturn the election results.\n <\/p>\n

\n Speaking on CNN\u2019s \u201cState of the Union,\u201d Blanche said the lawsuit was filed preemptively to preserve ballots and allow a court to investigate further \u201cif it\u2019s clear that there was confusion\u201d in the state\u2019s Senate election, which features a candidate whose name is also Dan Sullivan, but with a different middle initial.\n <\/p>\n

\n Blanche said last week that it was not his intention to get involved in the election certification process of the midterms, but left room for a possible \u201cdoomsday scenario<\/a>\u201d that would require Justice Department action.\n <\/p>\n

\n On Sunday, Blanche pushed back when asked by CNN\u2019s Dana Bash if a potential contestation of election results could lead to a scenario \u2014 akin to what led to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection \u2014 where the president refuses to accept the outcome of the midterms.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cYou set me up with the following question: Because the Department of Justice is concerned that there\u2019s an absolute fraud happening in Alaska, and he wants to do something about it, you\u2019re saying, \u2018Mr. Attorney General, because the president of the United States wants to stop a fraud and confusion in Alaska, is he gonna do something crazy?\u2019 That is not, that is not a real question,\u201d Blanche said.\n <\/p>\n

\n He added, \u201cWhat I said is the groundwork that we are laying is for Alaska, for the state of Alaska, if it becomes an issue after the election, will have the ability to determine whether there was confusion that violates the law in determining who the senator should be. That is not Donald J. Trump. That is not our president.\u201d\n <\/p>\n

\n Trump last week took credit for the legal challenge.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cWell, I\u2019m the one that said \u2018do it,\u2019\u201d Trump told reporters in Florida on Friday when asked about the lawsuit.\n <\/p>\n

\n Blanche would not say if Trump directly ordered him to file the lawsuit, asserting he does not publicly discuss his communications with the president. But he defended Trump\u2019s questioning of the Alaska ballot, which Trump has said amounts to \u201ccheating\u201d by Democrats.\n <\/p>\n

\n \u201cHe\u2019s not admitting it\u2019s political,\u201d Blanche said. \u201cHe\u2019s the executive. He\u2019s supposed to make sure that there\u2019s, everything in this country is running right, including elections.\u201d\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"” class=”image__dam-img image__dam-img–loading” onload=’this.classList.remove(‘image__dam-img–loading’)’ onerror=”imageLoadError(this)” height=”1080″ width=”1920″\/> \u2018What\u2019s the crime?\u2019: Bash presses Blanche over Alaska election lawsuit ”…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-894366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}