共和党与民主党互相指责对方使用无耻伎俩，却往往同时采用自己所谴责的手段
2026-09-01T06:35:24-04:00 / 福克斯新闻
作者：罗伯特·施马德 福克斯新闻
发布于2026年9月1日 美国东部时间早上6:35
共和党参议员表示，尽管存在所谓的干预行动，他仍准备在阿拉斯加参议院选举中击败民主党对手
阿拉斯加州共和党参议员丹·沙利文在“无情”播客中表示，尽管民主党据称招募了另一位名叫丹·沙利文的候选人参选，他仍准备击败民主党候选人玛丽·佩尔托拉。
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共和党与民主党正动用越来越激进的手段影响2026年中期选举，包括干预对手的初选、隐瞒政治开支以及利用选举截止日期。
两党互相指责对方使用无耻伎俩影响选民、左右选举格局，而各自阵营的工作人员却在采用类似策略。这些手段包括通过名称具有欺骗性的政治委员会转移数百万美元资金以干预对手初选，以及利用 filing 截止日期为 favored 继任者扫清参选道路。
许多此类伎俩都在关键选举中上演，这意味着国会控制权可能取决于许多人眼中的廉价把戏——这一前景可能进一步削弱公众对政府的信任。
三位丹的故事
阿拉斯加州参议院选举中有两位名为丹·沙利文的独立候选人，另有一位刚刚表态支持其中一人。
阿拉斯加参议院选举的荒谬名字问题愈发难以厘清
前安克雷奇市市长丹·沙利文、教师丹·沙利文与参议员丹·沙利文。(路透社/马克·迈耶 | 美联社照片/贝基·博雷尔 | 安娜·莫尼梅克/盖蒂图片社)
共和党方面认为，阿拉斯加州当前的混乱局面是民主党试图迷惑选民的阴谋产物。
现任共和党参议员丹·S·沙利文正面临教师丹·J·沙利文的挑战，共和党指责后者仅以共和党身份参选，目的是迷惑选民，使民主党受益。阿拉斯加州的选举制度允许无党派初选中得票排名前四的候选人进入排序复选制大选。
福克斯新闻权力排名将阿拉斯加参议院选举评为势均力敌，意味着两党目前均无明显优势。如果足够多的选民将丹·S·沙利文与丹·J·沙利文混淆，可能足以让民主党候选人玛丽·佩尔托拉占据上风。
共和党指出，丹·J·沙利文曾与一位民主党盟友的顾问合作，以此作为他参与分流丹·S·沙利文选民的阴谋的证据。而丹·J·沙利文则坚称自己是真正的共和党人，对现任参议员代表本州的方式有合理不满。
第三位丹·沙利文，即前安克雷奇市市长，最近介入参议院选举，表态支持丹·S·沙利文。
据报道，丹·J·沙利文正受到司法部与阿拉斯加州选举官员的分别调查，调查内容是他是否故意误导选民。此前共和党曾试图通过法律手段将他从选票上移除，但未能成功。
德克萨斯州初选闹剧
据称，全国共和党参议员委员会曾在幕后鼓动众议员贾斯敏·克罗克特参选德克萨斯州民主党参议院初选。她参选后，其他共和党势力也发布了民主党所称的信息，认为这有助于她获得初选选民支持。
一位熟悉该过程的消息人士在2025年接受NOTUS采访时，将其称为“草根伪装招募过程”。
全国共和党参议员委员会的所谓行动始于发布一份民调，显示克罗克特——一些人认为她在大选中比特克萨斯州州众议员詹姆斯·塔拉里科实力更弱——在假设的民主党初选中领先。在全国共和党参议员委员会发布民调之前，大多数初选民调都未将克罗克特纳入其中。
情况迅速改变，后续民调显示克罗克特获得了可观的支持率。这位国会议员最终将强劲的民调结果列为她参选的动机之一。
2026年7月13日，德克萨斯州民主党参议院候选人詹姆斯·塔拉里科在伊格尔帕斯国际贸易中心会议中心举行的“塔拉里科为德克萨斯：边境之旅”竞选集会上回答问题。(盖蒂图片社)
晨讯：阿拉斯加“真正的”参议员丹·沙利文在挑战者面前站稳脚跟
这位接受NOTUS采访的消息人士称，全国共和党参议员委员会一直在努力在进步派数字空间传播这些民调，并为克罗克特争取支持。她参选后，保守派政治委员会发布了表面上批评她自由派记录的广告，但批评者认为这不过是一种阴险伎俩，通过宣传通常受民主党基础选民欢迎的立场，让更多民主党人支持她。
多位共和党人也公开表示对她的参选感到担忧，这些言论可能会吸引自由派选民支持她。
即便克罗克特最终落败，激烈初选留下的紧张关系仍未消散，一些黑人民选官员和活动人士敦促塔拉里科采取更多行动，回应绝大多数支持克罗克特的选民的担忧。
无党派人士与资金推手
一个由民主党捐赠者、暗钱团体和左翼超级政治行动委员会组成的网络，已在共和党倾向的地区为五位无党派候选人投入了超过1000万美元的资金。
该策略的批评者认为，这是自由主义者绕过民主党品牌，将左翼议员悄悄送入国会的手段。尽管这些候选人自称无党派人士，但怀疑论者认为，如果当选，他们会像民主党人一样投票，许多候选人否认了这一指控，强调自己的独立性。
例如在内布拉斯加州、爱达荷州和南达科他州的参议院选举中，民主党候选人都退出了竞选，共和党方面指出这证明民主党正在利用无党派候选人作为后门，让自由主义者进入国会。
内布拉斯加州无党派候选人丹·奥斯本在奈利格的斯莱家庭酒吧和烧烤店进行竞选活动。(比尔·克拉克/CQ-罗尔公司通过盖蒂图片社)
共和党参议员、前众议院民主党人在阿拉斯加的“丛林初选”中脱颖而出，尽管受到极左干预
“丹收到了来自内布拉斯加州全部93个县的共和党人、无党派人士和民主党人的小额捐款，这些选民受够了被华盛顿说客、企业政治行动委员会和政党老板利用，”在内布拉斯加州参选的无党派候选人丹·奥斯本的竞选发言人告诉福克斯新闻数字频道。“里基茨整个竞选期间都在回避自己的记录，现在转而撒谎诋毁丹，因为他害怕了。”
在另一个阵营，共和党政治工作人员承认，他们使用名称具有欺骗性的超级政治行动委员会支持初选阶段的极左翼民主党候选人，以此策略选出更容易击败的对手。
保守美国人政治行动委员会是一个由右翼暗钱团体美国繁荣联盟资助的超级政治行动委员会，它向三个表面上属于左翼的委员会——Lead Left PAC、Real Change PAC和California Blue PAC注入了数百万美元。
这些看似自由主义的委员会随后投入大量资金支持民主党初选中的候选人，这些候选人被广泛认为在大选中不如其他对手强劲。
保守美国人政治行动委员会能够在不被发现的情况下完成此举，因为这些看似自由主义的政治行动委员会成立时间较晚，因此披露右翼资金来源的信息无需在初选结束前公布。这意味着在广告投放期间，选民无法得知广告的出资方。
“十年来民主党一直在干预我们的初选，如今共和党正在创造公平竞争环境，而民主党正处于内战之中，如果共和党不趁机推动他们的候选人更左倾，那就是愚蠢的，”保守美国人政治行动委员会的一位女发言人在谈到这笔开支时说道。
虚假民调
本选举周期广泛传播的一些政治民调后来被证实是伪造的。
最近被曝光由一名21岁男子运营的组织Median Strategies，发布了有关洛杉矶市长选举以及威斯康星州和内华达州州长选举的民调，这些民调在媒体生态系统中传播，获得了新闻媒体的报道，甚至被洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯吹捧。
然而，在媒体成员开始质疑后，Median Strategies解散，并向《洛杉矶时报》承认其民调是伪造的。
2026年6月9日，洛杉矶市长凯伦·巴斯在加利福尼亚州洛杉矶的东端工作室举行的竞选集会上。在洛杉矶市议会成员妮提亚·拉曼在市长初选中超越前真人秀明星斯宾塞·普拉特进入11月 runoff 选举的次日，凯伦·巴斯启动了连任竞选。(贾斯汀·沙利文/盖蒂图片社)
阿拉斯加共和党人忙于向选民解释所谓的民主党“卧底”，“选票疲劳”威胁选举
“Median Strategies的成立只是一个短期的社会实验，旨在考察所谓的民调信息如何在未经独立验证的情况下进入并传播到政治信息生态系统，”该公司在发给《泰晤士报》的电子邮件中说道。
这家虚假民调机构发布的民调声称，巴斯大幅领先与民主社会主义者组织结盟的对手，还称威斯康星州州议员弗朗西斯卡·洪——最终在初选中落败——在其他民主党人中拥有压倒性领先优势。
文书工作变通手段
来自蒙大拿州的共和党参议员史蒂夫·戴恩斯在候选人 filing 截止日期前几分钟暂停了连任竞选。
这一行为本身可能令人费解，但戴恩斯青睐的继任者库尔特·阿尔梅在参议员退选前几分钟提交了参选参议院的文书工作。
史蒂夫·戴恩斯亲手挑选的参议院继任者库尔特·阿尔梅誓言将在2026年让蒙大拿州继续留在共和党手中
前美国地区检察官库尔特·阿尔梅深知，他被选中接替即将离任的蒙大拿州共和党参议员史蒂夫·戴恩斯，以维持共和党在参议院的多数席位，他准备凭借自己的资历确保该“珍宝之州”保持红色。(阿尔梅竞选团队)
当现任国会议员退休时，顶级候选人通常会参选，利用没有现任议员参选的机会。由于戴恩斯拖延到最后一刻才退休，而且似乎与阿尔梅进行了协调，他实际上为阿尔梅扫清了道路，因为没有高调的共和党人报名参加蒙大拿州参议院初选。
“他们显然这么做是为了阻止某些人参选，”前蒙大拿州民主党参议员乔恩·泰斯特谈到这一手段时说道。“这不是意外。”
戴恩斯并非唯一利用 filing 截止日期的人。
芝加哥地区的民主党众议员楚伊·加西亚决定不寻求连任，而他的国会办公厅主任已经收集了足够的签名，可以出现在民主党初选的选票上。这一手段再次为议员选定的继任者扫清了道路。
加西亚在解释突然退休的决定时表示是因为健康问题，但他称外界对该情况的批评“合乎情理”。
Top election schemes roiling key midterm races as both parties accuse rivals of trickery
Republicans and Democrats accuse each other of cynical ploys while often using the same tactics they denounce
2026-09-01T06:35:24-04:00 / Fox News
By Robert Schmad Fox News
Published September 1, 2026 6:35am EDT
GOP senator says he’s prepared to take down Democrat in Alaska Senate race despite alleged interference efforts
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, told the “Ruthless” podcast that he’s prepared to beat Democrat Mary Peltola, despite the Democratic Party allegedly recruiting another candidate named Dan Sullivan to put on the ballot.
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Republicans and Democrats are deploying increasingly aggressive tactics to shape the 2026 midterms — including efforts to influence rival primaries, obscure political spending and exploit election deadlines.
Both parties are accusing one another of using cynical tactics to influence voters and shape the field ahead of Election Day, even as operatives aligned with each of them employ similar strategies. Those maneuvers have included routing millions of dollars through deceptively named political committees to influence rival primaries and using filing deadlines in ways that gave favored successors a clearer path to the ballot.
Many of these schemes are being carried out in key races, meaning that control of Congress may come down to what many view as cheap tricks — a prospect that could serve to further erode public trust in government.
The tale of three Dans
Two separate individuals named Dan Sullivan are running for Senate in Alaska, and a third just endorsed one over the other.
ALASKA SENATE RACE’S ABSURD NAME PROBLEM GETS EVEN HARDER TO UNTANGLE
Former Anchorage Mayor Dan Sullivan, teacher Dan Sullivan and Sen. Dan Sullivan.(REUTERS/Mark Meyer | AP Photo/Becky Bohrer | Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Republicans have argued that the confusing state of affairs in Alaska is the product of a Democratic ploy to disorient voters.
Incumbent GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan is facing a challenge from teacher Dan J. Sullivan, whom Republicans have accused of running as a Republican solely to confuse voters to the benefit of Democrats. Alaska’s electoral system allows the top-four vote-getters in the state’s nonpartisan primary to advance to the ranked-choice general election.
Fox News Power Rankings rates the Alaska Senate race as a toss-up, meaning neither party currently has a clear advantage. If enough voters confuse Dan S. Sullivan with Dan J. Sullivan, it could be enough to give Democratic nominee Mary Peltola an edge.
Republicans point to the fact that Dan J. Sullivan worked with a Democratic-aligned consultant as evidence that he is part of a plot to siphon voters off of Dan S. Sullivan. Dan J. Sullivan, meanwhile, maintains that he is an actual Republican with legitimate grievances as to the incumbent senator’s representation of his state.
A third Dan Sullivan, the former mayor of Anchorage, recently waded into the Senate race to endorse Dan S. Sullivan.
Dan J. Sullivan is reportedly being investigated by the Justice Department and Alaska election officials in separate probes examining whether he sought to deliberately mislead voters. The investigation follows a failed Republican legal effort to remove him from the ballot.
Texas primary games
The National Republican Senatorial Committee reportedly worked behind the scenes to encourage Rep. Jasmine Crockett to enter Texas’ Democratic Senate primary. Once she entered, other Republican actors also ran messaging that Democrats argued could help her with primary voters.
One source familiar with the process dubbed it an “AstroTurf recruitment process” when speaking with NOTUS in 2025.
The NRSC began its alleged campaign by releasing a poll showing Crockett, who was believed by some to be a weaker candidate in the general election than Texas state Rep. James Talarico, leading the field in a hypothetical Democratic primary. Prior to the NRSC’s poll, Crockett had not been included in most primary surveys.
That quickly changed and subsequent polls showed Crockett pulling in considerable support. The congresswoman ultimately cited the strong polling as part of her motivation in entering the race.
Democratic Texas Senate candidate James Talarico listens to a question during the conclusion of a “Talarico for Texas: Frontera Tour” campaign rally at the International Center for Trade convention center in Eagle Pass, Texas, on July 13, 2026.(Getty Images)
MORNING GLORY: ALASKA’S ‘REAL’ SENATOR DAN SULLIVAN STOOD UP OVER CHALLENGER
The source who spoke to NOTUS claimed that the NRSC worked diligently to spread those polls in progressive digital spaces and drum up support for Crockett. Once she entered the race, conservative political committees ran ads ostensibly criticizing her liberal record, though critics argued this was merely an underhanded tactic to get more Democrats to support her by publicizing positions that are generally popular with the Democratic base.
Multiple Republicans also said publicly that they were concerned about her candidacy, statements that could entice liberal voters to throw their support behind her.
Even with Crockett defeated, tensions from the bruising primary have lingered, with some Black elected officials and activists pressing Talarico to do more to address concerns among voters who overwhelmingly backed Crockett.
In(D)ependents and money movers
A network of Democratic donors, dark-money groups and left-leaning super PACs has spent well over $10 million backing five independents in Republican-leaning areas.
Critics of the strategy see it as a way for liberals to sneak left-leaning lawmakers into Congress by eschewing the branding of the Democratic Party. Though the candidates identify themselves as independents, skeptics hold that they’ll vote like Democrats if elected, a charge many of them deny, stressing their independence.
In the Nebraska, Idaho and South Dakota Senate races, for instance, the Democratic nominees withdrew from their races, which Republicans have pointed to as evidence that the party is using independent candidates as a backdoor to get liberals into Congress.
U.S. Senate candidate Dan Osborn speaks during his campaign stop at Sly’s Family Bar and Grill in Neligh, Nebraska.(Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
GOP SENATOR, EX-HOUSE DEM EMERGE FROM ALASKA’S ‘JUNGLE PRIMARY’ DESPITE FAR-LEFT MEDDLING
“Dan has taken small-dollar donations from Republicans, Independents, and Democrats from all 93 of Nebraska’s counties who are done being taken advantage of by D.C. lobbyists, corporate PACs, and party bosses,” a campaign spokesperson for Dan Osborn, the independent running in Nebraska, told Fox News Digital. “Ricketts has been running from his record all campaign and has resorted to lying about Dan because he’s scared.”
On the other side of the aisle, Republican political operatives have admitted to using deceptively named super PACs to boost far-left Democratic candidates in primary elections as part of a strategy to elevate easier-to-defeat opponents.
Conservative Americans PAC, a super PAC funded by the right-leaning dark money group American Prosperity Alliance, funneled millions of dollars into three ostensibly left-leaning committees called Lead Left PAC, Real Change PAC and California Blue PAC.
The seemingly liberal committees, in turn, spent large sums of money backing candidates in Democratic primaries widely believed to be weaker general election contenders than their opponents.
Conservative Americans PAC was able to do this undetected because the ostensibly liberal PACs were formed sufficiently late such that disclosures revealing the right-wing funding did not need to be released until after the primary elections were over. This means that, as the ads were rolling, voters had no way of knowing who was paying for them.
“Republicans are leveling the playing field after over a decade of Democrats meddling in our primaries, and with the Democrat Party in the midst of a civil war, Republicans would be stupid not to take advantage while pushing their candidates farther left,” a spokeswoman for Conservative Americans PAC said of the spending.
Phantom polling
Some political polls that circulated widely this cycle were later revealed to have been fabricated.
Median Strategies, an organization recently revealed to have been run by a 21-year-old, released polls on the Los Angeles mayoral election as well as the Wisconsin and Nevada gubernatorial elections that circulated through the media ecosystem, drawing coverage from news outlets and even being touted by Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass.
After members of the press began raising scrutiny, however, Median Strategies folded and admitted that its polls were fake to the Los Angeles Times.
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass looks on during a campaign rally at East End Studios on June 9, 2026, in Los Angeles, California. Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass kicked off her re-election campaign a day after Los Angeles City Councilmember Nithya Raman advanced to a November runoff election after overtaking former reality television personality Spencer Pratt in the city’s mayoral primary.(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
ALASKA REPUBLICANS SCRAMBLE TO EDUCATE VOTERS ON SUSPECTED DEM PLANT AS ‘BALLOT FATIGUE’ THREATENS RACE
“Median Strategies was created as a short term social experiment to examine how purported polling information could enter and spread through the political information ecosystem without independent verification,” the company said in an email to the Times.
The fake polling outfit pushed polls claiming that Bass was leading her DSA-aligned rival by a significant margin and that Wisconsin state lawmaker Francesca Hong, who ultimately lost her primary, had a commanding lead over other Democrats.
Paperwork workaround
Sen. Steve Daines, a Republican from Montana, suspended his re-election campaign just minutes before the filing deadline for candidates.
While this may seem puzzling on its own, Kurt Alme, Daines’ preferred successor, filed paperwork to run for Senate just minutes before the senator withdrew.
STEVE DAINES’ HANDPICKED SENATE SUCCESSOR KURT ALME VOWS TO KEEP MONTANA IN REPUBLICAN HANDS IN 2026
Former U.S. District Attorney Kurt Alme knows he was tapped to replace outgoing Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., to maintain the GOP’s majority in the Senate, and he’s ready to lean into his bonafides to keep the Treasure State red.(Alme Campaign)
When a sitting member of Congress retires, top-tier candidates typically throw their hats into the ring to take advantage of the fact that there won’t be an incumbent to run against. Because Daines held off retiring to the last moment, and seemingly coordinated with Alme, he effectively cleared the field for him, as no high-profile Republicans filed to run in Montana’s Senate primary.
“They obviously did this to keep certain people out of these races,” former Democratic Montana Sen. Jon Tester said of the maneuver. “It wasn’t an accident.”
Daines wasn’t the only one to leverage filing deadlines in this manner.
Rep. Chuy Garcia, a Chicago-area Democrat, decided not to seek reelection, while his congressional chief of staff had gathered the signatures necessary to appear on the Democratic primary ballot. Once again, the maneuver effectively cleared the way for a lawmaker’s chosen successor.
Garcia cited health problems when explaining his sudden decision to retire, though he called criticisms over how the situation looked “fair.”