” class=”image__dam-img image__dam-img–loading” onload=’this.classList.remove(‘image__dam-img–loading’)’ onerror=”imageLoadError(this)” height=”1080″ width=”1920″/> ‘What’s the crime?’: Bash pressures Blanche over Alaska election lawsuit ” class=”image__dam-img image__dam-img–loading” onload=’this.classList.remove(‘image__dam-img–loading’)’ onerror=”imageLoadError(this)” height=”1080″ width=”1920″ loading=’lazy’/> ‘What’s the Crime?’: Bash Presses Blanche on Alaska Election Lawsuit 6:08 PM Attorney General Todd Blanche this morning strongly denied the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to block the certification of the Alaska Senate election. the United States in Alaska if the Republican Party Senator Dan Sullivan loses amounts and President Donald Trump lays the groundwork to potentially overturn the election results. Speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Blanche said the lawsuit was filed preemptively to preserve the ballots and allow a court to further investigate “whether it is clear that there was confusion” in the state Senate election, which features a candidate whose name is also Dan Sullivan, but with a different middle initial. Blanche said last week that it was not her intention to get involved in the midterm election certification process, but she left room for a possible “doomsday scenario” that would require action by the Justice Department. On Sunday, Blanche responded when CNN’s Dana Bash asked her if a possible challenge to the election results could lead to a scenario, similar to the one that led to the January 6, 2021 insurrection, in which the president refuses to accept the result of the midterm elections. “He posed this question to me: Because the Department of Justice is concerned that outright fraud is going on in Alaska and wants to do something about it, you’re saying, ‘Mr. Attorney General, because the president of the United States wants to stop fraud and confusion in Alaska, are you going to do something crazy?’ That’s not a real question,” Blanche said. He added: “What I said is that we are laying the groundwork for Alaska, because the state of Alaska, if it becomes an issue after the election, will have the ability to determine whether there was confusion that violated the law in determining who should be the senator. That is not Donald J. Trump. That is not our president.” Last week, Trump took credit for the legal challenge. “Well, I was the one who said ‘do it,'” Trump told reporters in Florida on Friday when asked about the lawsuit. Blanche did not say whether Trump directly ordered her to file the lawsuit, saying she does not publicly discuss her communications with the president. But he defended Trump’s questioning of the Alaska vote, which Trump said amounted to “cheating” by Democrats. “He doesn’t admit that he’s political,” Blanche said. “He’s the executive. He’s supposed to make sure everything in this country runs smoothly, including elections.”
