President Donald Trump has demanded that Alaska change its ballot after The New York Times reported that Democrats spent months trying to recruit a man named Dan Sullivan to run against Dan S. Sullivan, the state’s Republican senator.

“It has just been determined that the Democrats in Alaska illegally searched for, and recruited, a man named Dan Sullivan to run against our distinguished Republican Senator, Dan Sullivan, in order to defraud, confuse, and obfuscate the Election, thereby taking votes away from the REAL Senator, Dan Sullivan,” Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday.

He added that Democratic candidate Mary Peltola “should suffer the Legal and Political consequences for what she has done, A FRAUD ON THE AMERICAN PUBLIC, and Dan Sullivan should be allowed to run without either Mary Peltola or FAKE Dan Sullivan on the Ballot.”

The previously undisclosed effort to enlist a same-name challenger involved staff members at the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and on Peltola ’s campaign, The New…