FBI agents contact donors of Alaska's 'Decoy Dan' as a criminal probe into the pivotal US Senate race widens
Donald Trump, who has held 25 rallies since early October, now faces warnings of a West Wing "bloodbath" if Republicans lose the Senate on Tuesday.
An FBI agent travelled to Petersburg — a small, isolated fishing village accessible only by air or water — and stopped at a boat dealership looking for Charles Flint, a donor who had given $500 to retired teacher Dan J. Sullivan's campaign. Flint told the AP he was neither confused nor felt any pressure to return the agent's call, adding that he plans to rank Democrat Mary Peltola first on his ballot.
Alaska's Republican attorney general dismissed the DOJ's lawsuit as 'meritless', telling the federal judge that the demand to isolate individual ballots is 'both disturbing and impossible' without breaching voter privacy.
Peltola told a Friday rally she is 'deeply offended' by the accusations but stayed silent on the criminal probe confirmed by US Attorney Michael Heyman.
Alaska could take weeks to finalise its count, with ballots arriving by plane from remote communities — leaving Senate control hanging in the balance.
