Is it legal to recruit a candidate with the same name as one's opponent?

Name: Is it legal to recruit a candidate with the same name as one's opponent?
Uploaded: 2026-10-30
Duration: 206 s
Channel: CBS News
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Channel: CBS News

Uploaded: 2026-10-30

Duration: PT206S

Read a transcript preview of “Is it legal to recruit a candidate with the same name as one's opponent?” from CBS News, uploaded on 2026-10-30.

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Language: English (original, YouTube automatic captions)

[0:01] One of our top stories tonight is

[0:03] raising some significant constitutional

[0:05] questions in one state. The Republican

[0:07] governor of Alaska,

[0:10] excuse me, is investigating new claims

[0:12] that Democratic Senate candidate Mary

[0:13] Pelah recruited one of her opponents,

[0:16] Dan J. Sullivan, in a scheme to

[0:18] intentionally mislead voters and siphon

[0:20] votes away from incumbent Dan S.

[0:22] Sullivan. The Justice Department has

[0:24] also issued new subpoenas in the probe

[0:26] as officials weigh criminal charges.

[0:28] Now, President Trump is ca