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Blanche defends Alaska ballot lawsuit over two Dan Sullivans

Margaret Brennan presses the attorney general on voter confusion, the ballot's incumbent label and whether Trump directed the case.

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Why this story? The video opened at a pace of 150,504 views a day, 11 times a normal first day on this channel (14,084).

AG Blanche says DOJ is "doing our own research under the law" with Alaska ballot challenge

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1:00Brennan questions the Alaska lawsuit over two Senate candidates named Dan Sullivan.
2:54The ballot appears as Brennan asks why identifying the incumbent and his party is insufficient.
4:42Blanche refuses to discuss private communications with Trump when asked whether the president directed the case.
5:10Blanche says the Justice Department conducted its own legal research, the explanation highlighted in the title.
11:46Asked about potential congressional subpoenas, Blanche says the administration complies with them.

The Alaska ballot identifies the incumbent and his party affiliation. Margaret Brennan wants to know why that is not enough to distinguish two Senate candidates named Dan Sullivan.

That question anchors a Face the Nation interview in which Attorney General Todd Blanche defends the Justice Department's preemptive lawsuit seeking to block certification of the Alaska Senate results. Blanche argues that the challenger entered the race to confuse voters and draw support away from the incumbent. Brennan counters by bringing the ballot itself into the discussion, questioning why its identifying labels are insufficient.

The exchange then turns from the candidates' names to the president's involvement. Asked whether Donald Trump directed him to pursue the case, Blanche declines to discuss their private communications.

"I will never, ever, ever talk about communications that I have with the president of the United States," he says. His explanation for the lawsuit follows: "This is the Department of Justice doing our own research under the law."

The interview drew nearly 100,000 views in eleven hours, an unusually fast start for the program's regular videos. Its comments had also already far exceeded the channel's usual first-day total.

Another interview from the same broadcast was drawing an unusually quick audience: Sen. Thom Tillis's response to the Starlink slowdown in Ukraine. Tillis argued that a private company operating in military and geopolitical affairs needs guardrails and accountability.

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