𝐃𝐎𝐉 𝐅𝐈𝐑𝐄𝐒 𝟒𝟎+ 𝐒𝐔𝐁𝐏𝐎𝐄𝐍𝐀𝐒 𝐈𝐍 𝐓𝐇𝐄 "𝐃𝐄𝐂𝐎𝐘 𝐃𝐀𝐍" 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐄—𝐓𝐑𝐔𝐌𝐏 𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐓𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐋𝐀𝐖𝐘𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐓𝐄𝐃 With Alaska's Senate race still on the ballot today, the Justice Department dramatically widened its criminal probe into the "𝐃𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐲 𝐃𝐚𝐧" scheme —the alleged Democrat plan to recruit a copycat candidate just to confuse voters and bleed votes from the real Sen. Dan Sullivan (R). CNN reports 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐧 𝟒𝟎 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐬𝐮𝐛𝐩𝐨𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐬 and records-preservation notices went out by Wednesday evening, with more expected, after a New York Times report on Democrat Mary Peltola's campaign handed investigators evidence they hadn't had before. One DOJ official put it bluntly: “𝘚𝘶𝘥𝘥𝘦𝘯𝘭𝘺 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘱𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭 𝘤𝘢𝘴𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦 𝘮𝘶𝘤𝘩 𝘸𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳.” Trump didn't mince words about who he blames. Asked about the vanished copycat candidate: “𝘏𝘦 𝘬𝘯𝘰𝘸𝘴 𝘩𝘦'𝘴 𝘨𝘶𝘪𝘭𝘵𝘺. 𝘐𝘵'𝘴 𝘢 𝘧𝘳𝘢𝘶𝘥 𝘰𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘦𝘰𝘱𝘭𝘦. 𝘐𝘵 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘥𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘣𝘺 𝘚𝘤𝘩𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳 —𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘩𝘪𝘴 𝘭𝘢𝘸𝘺𝘦𝘳, 𝘔𝘢𝘳𝘤 𝘌𝘭𝘪𝘢𝘴, 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘩𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘤𝘳𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦.” Investigators are reportedly weighing federal civil rights charges over the scheme. Trump has separately said of Peltola and the decoy candidate himself: “𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥 𝘣𝘦 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘥.” One Senate seat, and maybe the majority margin, may hinge on a race nobody can even agree was run fairly. 𝐒𝐭𝐞𝐚𝐥 𝐚𝐧 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐥𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐮𝐩—𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐣𝐮𝐫𝐲 𝐝𝐨𝐞𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐜𝐚𝐫𝐞. Source: @EricLDaugh