President Trump is changing his final campaign strategy as Republicans try to close an early-voting gap and hold off Democratic gains in competitive races across the country.Alaska’s tight Senate race is facing new scrutiny after allegations that Democrats helped recruit a spoiler candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent,

The Justice Department (DOJ) issued dozens of subpoenas in connection with the ballot stacking allegations against Alaska’s Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola. On Wednesday, The New York Times reported that Peltola’s campaign was directly involved in recruiting someone with the same name as her opponent Sen. Dan S. Sullivan (R). The presence of a candidate…

RealClearPolitics co-founder Tom Bevan, on Thursday's "Special Report," discussed the Alaska ballot stacking controversy: "I think it's less the legal argument in Alaska and more the character argument. Mary Peltola has sworn up and down that she had nothing to do with this, and the evidence seems to indicate the opposite. And that race, she is ahead, but only about 1.2 points in the Real Clear Politics average. And so even the slightest bump at the end for the non-decoy Dan, the incumbent senator there, could help get him across the finish line. And that may end up deciding the balance of power in the Senate. And we might not go to bed that night not knowing until that race is counted."

Sullivan, who shares a first and last name with Alaska's incumbent Republican senator, will stay on the ballot. But the battle over his candidacy has consequences that could extend beyond Election Day.

As Alaska’s governorship and the composition of the Legislature hang in the balance of the November election, local governments — including Anchorage’s — are grappling with changes in state counterparts.

Eric Hafner is running for Congress from federal prison—again—after Alaska Republicans fought to keep him on the ballot.

Matthew Salisbury to Newsmax: Dem Operative Used Fake Name in Alaska Senate Push