Todd Blanche spars with Bash over Alaska lawsuit

CNN anchor Dana Bash clashed with Attorney General Todd Blanche over the Justice Department’s lawsuit concerning Alaska’s Senate ballot, where two candidates have similar names: incumbent Republican Dan Sullivan and Daniel Sullivan Jr. Blanche argued the second candidate was trying to confuse voters and criticized CNN’s coverage, while Bash said the issue had been covered and challenged the administration’s case. In a separate account of the exchange, Bash also questioned whether President Donald Trump’s intervention—and the lawsuit, which Trump said he requested—could signal an effort to overturn election results; Blanche rejected that concern as unreasonable. Commentary on the interview also disputed Bash’s reference to the Constitution’s assignment of election rules to state legislatures, noting that the same provision gives Congress authority to make or alter those rules by law.