Alaska Democrat Mary Peltola's Senate campaign recruited a man named Dan Sullivan to run against incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan — is that a fair campaign tactic?
The New York Times reported that operatives for Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola recruited a man named Dan Sullivan to run against Republican incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan, apparently to confuse voters; President Trump has called for the campaign to be prosecuted.
Legal but unethical. It shouldn't have been done. Republicans have a long history of dirty tricks. Roger Stone made an entire career out of dirty tricks. The solution is for American voters to eschew these antics but that requires a level of sophistication and engagement that has never existed here.
If the shoe were on the other foot, how would the Dems feel? This is over the line, for sure, and unfortunately undermines their claim to the moral high ground over Trump and his supporters.
That claim died a solid decade ago now (and had already been ground down to a facade by that point anyway).
If you're voting "fair game," where's your line — recruiting a same-name candidate is fine, but what about one who shares the opponent's hometown too, or his old campaign slogan?