According to Fox News, CBS News reporters strongly resisted editor-in-chief Bari Weiss during a meeting over the Alaska “Decoy Dan” Senate ballot scandal.
Weiss pointed out, “This is a scandal.”
Weiss is correct. We’ve known for a long time that something was fishy about Dan J. Sullivan, which gained national steam after The New York Times finally reported on it.
The report said that Democrat candidate Mary Peltola’s campaign sought out a man with the same name as Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan.
But insiders told Fox News that CBS reporters made excuses not to cover it:
Many on the call shrugged it off as routine politics and said Republicans have also engaged in similar scheming.When Weiss asked for other examples of ballot confusion, “Face the Nation” moderator Margaret Brennan pointed to New Hampshire Senate candidate John Sununu, suggesting that midterm voters might confuse him with his brother, former New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu.CBS News political correspondent Ed O’Keefe also insisted that such tactics are nothing new. Earlier that morning, during his appearance on “CBS Mornings,” O’Keefe stressed to viewers that what happened in Alaska “could be a dirty trick, but it’s not illegal,” adding that “this has happened before, kind of.” He pointed to the 2016 Alaska Senate race when former Anchorage mayor Dan Sullivan — no relation to the U.S. Senator of the same name — briefly ran against incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski in the GOP primary, hoping “name recognition” of the other sitting senator would help his own candidacy.A separate CBS staffer on the call pushed back against the notion that colleagues like Brennan and O’Keefe were trying to downplay the scandal, telling Fox News Digital they were providing context to the story being discussed.
Well, um, the Sununu brothers aren’t trying to confuse anyone. They also belong to a well-known political family.
“Decoy Dan” literally came out of nowhere.
The Alaska Division of Elections removed “Decoy Dan” from the ballot, citing evidence that he chose the same name and party as Sullivan to confuse voters. He is using a name he doesn’t typically use and even designed his campaign website to look like the incumbent senator’s.
The Alaska Supreme Court overturned the board’s decision.
But it looks like the reporters lost because I found a few CBS News articles and videos about the story:
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