SHOCKING Democrat Involvement ALLEGED In Double Dan Sullivan Alaska Senate Scheme | Billy Bush
Oct 30, 2026
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AI GeneratedThe video discusses controversial political dynamics in Alaska and Los Angeles. In Alaska, a Democratic strategy to recruit a candidate with the same name as the Republican incumbent to confuse voters is detailed. In Los Angeles, the internal conflict within the DSA regarding Nithya Raman's stance on Israel and her record on homelessness is analyzed.
The one that's the most riveting, guys, is Alaska.
This is the stuff of a movie.
The Republican incumbent senator is Daniel S. Sullivan.
The Democrat is Mary Peltola.
The unaffiliated with any party independent guy is Daniel S. Sullivan.
Daniel J. Sullivan,
sorry. So you've got Daniel S. Sullivan
on the far right if you're looking at our picture.
There's the Democrat in the middle, Mary.
And there's Daniel J. Sullivan.
On the other side,
it is the great Sullivan divide with Mary in the middle.
Is it a Democrat scheme to subvert voters,
to hoodwink them, to confuse them by having
two Dan Sullivans in the race?
Is Daniel J., the guy in the sweatshirt over there,
just a decoy that they drummed up?
Trump says absolutely, voter fraud at the highest level.
Of course, you say that anyway,
so it just doesn't have the stickiness, it should.
But the Lieutenant Governor of Alaska did an investigation in June
and concluded, yeah,
That it was a scam and they demanded that Daniel J. Sullivan,
the sweatshirt guy, be removed from the race.
And then the Alaskan Supreme Court overturned it.
So he's back in. He is on the ballot on Tuesday.
But what's fascinating, New York Times did an investigation,
a bombshell investigation that uncovered text messages,
documents, emails, insider accounts.
Pointing to an extraordinary Democratic campaign tactic in Alaska.
Yes, the Democrats and the
operatives recruited another guy named Dan Sullivan.
They did it to run against Senator
Dan Sullivan. Confuse him, split the Sullivan vote,
help the Democrat Mary Peltola benefit
from that. Her campaign denies involvement,
but the Times reporting concludes she was kept
abreast. Five things you should know.
The Times reported that officials working with Mary Peltola's campaign
and the Democrat
Senatorial Campaign Committee discussed in texts
and emails recruiting candidates with the same
name as a Republican senator.
They really went out and said, this is a plan, find a Dan Sullivan.
According to the reporting.
An operative by the name of Jared Kurtz was brought into the effort
and ultimately he found
Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a retired teacher from Petersburg,
Alaska. All right, then enter Elisa
Rios, Peltola's former campaign manager.
She described the effort to the Times
and said voters deserve to know what happened.
She had disgruntled former campaign manager,
I don't know, but she told the Times this was the
plan. The Times subsequently reported
that she attempted to retract her interview. I want all
my comments removed. Alaska officials had already raised the concerns,
I told you about what they
What they did in June in the Alaska Supreme Court,
deciding to let the guy do it.
But.
The Peltola campaign, they acknowledge the scheme tacitly,
but they say she herself,
the candidate, did not personally direct it.
I'm sorry. That's like, are you responsible for the
content of a retweet? If you retweet something,
are you not endorsing it? If you like a tweet
or comment in a comment section, are you not endorsing that opinion?
This future leader did not stand up and say this is wrong.
And it is wrong. And by the way,
Alaska uses ranked choice voting,
which makes the potential effects of same name candidate
action here even more head splitting.
Ranked choice voting means you go in and you rank your
choices. I want Dan Sullivan, the senator first.
I want Dan Sullivan second. And you put your
You're a candidate in order of favorites.
And then they keep eliminating round
after round until someone gets to 50%.
But this is just the craziest thing.
And I'm afraid Mary Peltola needs to go down.
And that needs to remain a Republican seat for the grossness of it all.
I don't even know if she's a better candidate than him.
I just know it's gross.
And you can't deny being involved.
Sorry.
Los Angeles, speaking of midterms,
it's a mess.
You've got Nithya Raman, who is the DSA-endorsed
candidate here, and she is in a pickle.
She is a weak politician.
She's not forceful, really, in any of her beliefs.
If you've ever seen her appearances with Hasan Piker
or with any other podcast, she kind
of waffles on everything.
She has no conviction,
but she is.
Being propelled by the very well-organized DSA,
they demand allegiance.
Here's the problem she's in.
There is a thing called R22,
which is a DSA resolution that requires local chapters,
like the LA chapter,
to hold their candidates' feet to the fire over Israel.
Everything for the Democrats,
Socialists of America comes down to Israel.
The candidates that we endorse on a national DSA level need
to support BDS, boycott, divestment,
and sanctions against Israel.
Problem for Nithya is a lot of Jews live here.
Her husband is a comedy writer.
The guy's in the biz. The Jewish contingency in the
entertainment business is profound.
And it's like, for the people...
In the business who support her because he's well liked
and they like him is kind of wearing thin,
right? There is a meeting coming up this Saturday on Halloween.
The National Political Committee of
the DSA, the local DSA
and Nithya herself are going to get together to assess her position.
Basically a litmus test to define is she against Israel enough?
She's not gonna be able to waffle out of this one.
But the local chapter endorsed her 937 to 484.
So if the national organization comes
in and revokes their endorsement of her, it's
a total mess.
This is potentially explosive for the whole movement.
And maybe Nithya holds the cards
because the local chapter is gonna say, are you insane?
You're gonna hand this to Karen Bass.
But Karen Bass is already,
who's the incumbent mayor, is already benefiting.
From all of this, she's back up on top of Nithya.
We'll get to that in a second. And then there's
the homelessness issue. Poor Nithya.
Nithya Raman basically says on homelessness, if there's no
crime, just kind of let them be.
They're not bothering anyone. She's on a podcast. These
guys go, wait, there is a crime. It's called drugs.
In September, the Los Angeles Police Union
attacked Nithya for failing to protect kids.
Protesters put an encampment,
a homeless encampment in front of her house in Los Feliz,
which is like a nice area, hysterical.
Nithya was the chairwoman of the Housing
and Homelessness Committee from 2023 to just two
months ago.
And here's the problem, homelessness increased 3.4% in her last year.
Unsheltered homelessness,
people in encampments and sleeping on the street increased 8%.
Only in L.A. can you fail
so badly with the one thing you're in charge of and become mayor
because you've been propelled by the DSA.
But Kalshi, like I said,
seems the infighting has given Karen Bass a reversal of fortune here.
On Kalshi, Karen Bass is now at 55 percent.
Nithya Raman is at 45 percent.
Five days to go till Election Day.
Along with the socialist infighting
and homelessness failures, there is the mayor's
endorsement from her very popular opponent the last time around,
Rick Caruso. He's behind Karen
Bass. Everyone's afraid of the socialists.
Remember, Kalshi, she's not a poll. It's a prediction
market. You're trading against other people directly.
No house setting the odds or taking
their cuts. Just people putting their money behind
the candidate of their choice. And right now,
with five days to go, that market has completely reversed direction.
I hope somebody in Hollywood got a permit to film all of this drama
so we can give the film
industry the needed boost from all of this action here.
So much flip-flopping. Trade $25 with code
hotmikes and cows. You will throw in another 25 instantly.
Trade responsibly.

