Adam Schiff Smeared Blanche Over Alaska and Ignored the Red Flags Its Elections Chief Raised

Adam Schiff went on Meet the Press and accused the Justice Department of helping Trump subvert an election.

His target was a lawsuit over two men named Dan Sullivan on the same Alaska Senate ballot.

Schiff never mentioned what Alaska's elections chief found when she threw the second Sullivan off that ballot.

Schiff Called Todd Blanche's Justice Department Complicit

Host Kristen Welker teed it up on October 25, and Schiff reached straight for the usual Democrat talking points.

He said the Justice Department is "complicit" in Trump's "campaign to try to subvert the elections."

He argued the DOJ has no standing, that running Alaska's elections is Alaska's job, and that the matter was already decided.

Then he predicted the lawsuit "has no chance of succeeding."

What really galled him was that Attorney General Todd Blanche would attach the department's name to it at all.

The lawsuit asks a federal court to hold off certifying Alaska's Senate race if Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan loses narrowly to Democrat Mary Peltola – the candidate Chuck Schumer helped recruit.

Trump has said openly that he told the Justice Department to file it.

Blanche says the goal is guardrails so Alaskans who meant to vote for their senator do not get their votes swallowed by a name mix-up.

How a Second Dan Sullivan Landed On the Ballot

The incumbent appears on the ballot as Dan S. Sullivan, a registered Republican.

Also on that ballot is Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a retired schoolteacher from the fishing town of Petersburg.

He changed his voter registration to Republican right as he entered the race.

That put him in the same party as the senator, with the same name, chasing the same seat.

Sen. Sullivan did not mince words.

He said the newcomer's primary purpose was to "confuse Alaskans and rig the vote for my opponent, the Democrat."

Alaska Elections Director Carol Beecher saw enough to throw the second Sullivan off the ballot on June 15.

She ruled his paperwork "was not filed in order to declare an actual good-faith candidacy for the office of United States Senator."

She found it was meant to "confuse or mislead" voters.

Her reasons read like a rap sheet.

The timing of that party switch.

A campaign website that looked like the senator's.

And a political consultant whose clients have included Democrats.

The newcomer swears he had "zero, none, zilch" contact with Peltola's campaign.

A state judge restored him to the ballot anyway, calling Beecher's "good faith" standard a new test nobody had spelled out before, and the Alaska Supreme Court signed off on June 29.

So the ballot heading into November 3 features two Dan Sullivans in a race that could decide control of the Senate.

Why a Federal Senate Seat Is Federal Business

Schiff's states' rights routine sounds nice until you remember what is on the ballot.

This is not a race for dogcatcher – it is a seat in the United States Senate.

The Justice Department's suit rests on the National Voter Registration Act, a federal law written in part to protect the integrity of the electoral process.

And the Alaska courts only decided whether the second Sullivan could appear on the ballot.

They never decided whether enough voters got tricked into marking the wrong Dan Sullivan to swing the result.

That is the question Blanche wants answered before Alaska hands Peltola a certificate.

Democrats Tried to Overturn a Certified Six Vote Iowa Race

Democrats suddenly discovered a deep respect for certified state results.

That is news to Iowa.

In 2020, Iowa certified Republican Mariannette Miller-Meeks the winner of her House race by six votes after a recount in every county.

That December, her Democrat opponent Rita Hart went straight to the Democrat-controlled House and asked Congress to step in and potentially flip it.

Miller-Meeks put it plainly: "It is shameful that Rita Hart does not have faith in Iowans."

That is the party now lecturing Republicans about respecting the voters.

Schiff's Mortgage Referral Went to the Same Man He Is Attacking

Schiff has history with Todd Blanche, too.

In May 2025, Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte sent a criminal referral over Schiff's mortgage paperwork to then-Attorney General Pam Bondi and then-Deputy Attorney General Blanche.

According to the referral, Schiff listed a house in Maryland as his primary residence on loan documents for years while he represented a California district in Congress.

A Fannie Mae memo flagged "a sustained pattern of possible occupancy misrepresentation" across five loans.

Schiff calls all of it baseless, and the Justice Department has never announced charges.

Now that same senator wants Americans to believe Blanche is the threat to election integrity.

Alaska's elections chief looked hard at this candidacy and saw a scheme to confuse voters.

Schiff looked at the same mess and decided the villain was the lawyer asking a judge to protect Alaska voters from it.

He is not defending democracy.

He is defending a Democrat path to a Senate seat.

Sources:

• Pam Key, "Schiff: DOJ 'Complicit' in Trump's Attempts to 'Subvert the Elections,'" Breitbart, October 25, 2026.
• David Zimmermann, "Dan Sullivan's Challenger With Same Name Ruled Ineligible for Senate Primary," Washington Examiner, June 15, 2026.
• Associated Press, "Challenger With Same Name as Alaska U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan Sues to Stay on Ballot," The Washington Times, June 22, 2026.
• Brie Stimson, "Judge Rules Republican With Same Name as Sen Dan Sullivan Can Stay on Alaska Primary Ballot," Fox News, June 27, 2026.
• Ronn Blitzer, "Iowa Democrat Who Lost by 6 Votes Asks House to Investigate Race, Consider Flipping Result," Fox News, December 22, 2020.
• Danielle Wallace and Peter Doocy, "Federal Housing Official Submitted Schiff Criminal Referral to DOJ Over Mortgage Documents," Fox News, July 16, 2025.