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Sen. Dan Sullivan Don't let Peltola and Schumer steal this election · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: All right, the decoy Dan scandal is rocking the Alaska
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  Speaker 1: Senate race. Operatives from Democrat candidate Mary Patola reportedly spent
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  Speaker 1: months recruiting a spoiler candidate with the same name as
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  Speaker 1: incumbent GOP Senator Dan Sullivan to dilute his vote. Patola
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  Speaker 1: denies she had any part in it.
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  Speaker 2: I am so deeply offended by these accusations about having
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  Speaker 2: any involvement with anyone else's candidacy involved. Of course I
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  Speaker 2: want fewer candidates in the primary. Of course I want
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  Speaker 2: fewer candidates in the primary. I'm not out soliciting more competition.
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  Speaker 1: A white liberal woman offended by the truth. Who would
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  Speaker 1: have thunk it? All right, now Democrats are rushing to
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  Speaker 1: her defense.
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  Speaker 3: I think this is really a distraction.
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  Speaker 2: It is clearly an abuse of power if you ask
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  Speaker 2: me to have this federal surge into Alaska.
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  Speaker 4: I think this is much ado about nothing, and it's
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  Speaker 4: an attempt for Donald Trump to cast a shadow over
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  Speaker 4: what might be a really bad loss for him in
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  Speaker 4: the Alaska election. Trump is just fishing for reasons to
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  Speaker 4: try to fix the election. He said what he wants
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  Speaker 4: in those remarks. He said he wants Mary Peltola off
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  Speaker 4: the ballot because that's probably the only way that Dan
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  Speaker 4: Sullivan can win.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, save that tape. But voters, they don't see it
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  Speaker 1: that way.
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  Speaker 5: I believe it was underhanded, and I consider it cheating
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  Speaker 5: by the Mary Poltola campaign. It's unconventional to find a
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  Speaker 5: person with the same first and last name to run
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  Speaker 5: against the candidate you're running against.
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  Speaker 4: They were just trying to see people to think they
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  Speaker 4: might be.
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  Speaker 5: Voting for him when they actually wouldn't be.
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  Speaker 1: I'd like to see her take a test to see
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  Speaker 1: if she could tell the truth. Joining us for tonight's
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  Speaker 1: big close-up is Alaska Senator Dan Sullivan. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: see the hat there?
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  Speaker 4: Hoorah.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your service. Hoorah, Joey.
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  Speaker 3: Good to see you again.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, listen.
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  Speaker 6: Okay.
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  Speaker 1: We've got this problem here. We've got this other Dan
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  Speaker 1: Sullivan with ranked choice voting. You could explain to me
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  Speaker 1: for an hour, probably wouldn't understand it. Didn't take statistics
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  Speaker 1: in college. Don't know I can understand this. But with
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  Speaker 1: ranked choice voting, it exacerbates the problem for you, apparently.
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  Speaker 1: With all that being said, if you lose narrowly and
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  Speaker 1: there is something going, there's a there there, what is
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  Speaker 1: the recourse? Is it another election without him on the ballot?
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  Speaker 1: What do you see as that next step?
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  Speaker 3: Well, look, Joey, what we're doing right now is campaigning
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  Speaker 3: really hard. That's my focus. It's not focused on the
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  Speaker 3: legal issues. But again, people in Alaska and around the
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  Speaker 3: country need to know what happened. My opponent, Mary Paltola,
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  Speaker 3: talks a lot about D.C. corruption. This is the ultimate
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  Speaker 3: in D.C.
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  Speaker 1: Corruption.
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  Speaker 3: Think about it. Six months before she announced her run
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  Speaker 3: against me, she was a D.C. lobbyist making almost a
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  Speaker 3: half million a year. In D.C., when she's getting ready
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  Speaker 3: to run, her first order of business is to call
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  Speaker 3: in Schumer's staffers in terms of the Senate and her staff.
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  Speaker 3: And it's not to say, what are we going to
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  Speaker 3: run on in terms of my record or in terms
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  Speaker 3: of my vision? Their first order of business literally is
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  Speaker 3: to say, how can we rig the system in Alaska?
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  Speaker 3: cheat Alaskan voters to help them throw away their votes,
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  Speaker 3: and then lie about it to the media, to Alaskans
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  Speaker 3: for the last year. And trust me, she is lying
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  Speaker 3: about it. If anyone wants to see the depth of
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  Speaker 3: the deception, read the New York Times articles. You guys
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  Speaker 3: know the New They go into plenty of detail, exact
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  Speaker 3: detail of how they're lying, how they did this. And
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  Speaker 3: it's not he said, she said, Joey. It's the text messages.
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  Speaker 3: between Peltola's chief of staff, her campaign manager, senior Schumer
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  Speaker 3: staffers for months. They got regular updates. There's no way
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  Speaker 3: Peltola doesn't know about this. Her chief of staff was
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  Speaker 3: involved with this all the time. By the way, her
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  Speaker 3: chief of staff went to become a D.C. lobbyist with her.
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  Speaker 3: Her chief of staff and her have been joined at
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  Speaker 3: the hip for over a year, many years. There's no
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  Speaker 3: way that she didn't know about it. And even her
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  Speaker 3: campaign manager said in the New York Times story, of
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  Speaker 3: course she knew about it. So it's deception, but at
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  Speaker 3: its worst. It's disdain for us Alaskans. Think about what
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  Speaker 3: they did. They're trying to make sure that Alaskans throw
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  Speaker 3: away their vote. Even in that New York Times article,
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  Speaker 3: there's a moment written about where Peltola's aides make fun
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  Speaker 3: of Alaskans. This is how much contempt they have for
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  Speaker 3: all of us. Don't let it happen, Alaskans. If you're watching,
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  Speaker 3: get out the vote. Don't let Peltola and Schumer steal
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  Speaker 3: this election.
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  Speaker 6: Senator, you should be flattered that they went to such
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  Speaker 6: great lengths to find somebody in a remote village that
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  Speaker 6: has your same name. I mean, that is pretty incredible.
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  Speaker 6: I don't think we've seen headlines out of Alaska like
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  Speaker 6: this since the days of Sarah Palin. So I guess
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  Speaker 6: Alaska is getting its moment, not for the reasons I'm
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  Speaker 6: sure you're excited about, but it's quite the ride we've
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  Speaker 6: been on with this story. I want to ask you
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  Speaker 6: about Alaska just more broadly. President Trump Won that state
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  Speaker 6: against Kamala Harris by quite a bit. 13 percentage points
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  Speaker 6: is the spread there. Why is it even close in Alaska,
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  Speaker 6: even without all these dirty tricks, about the race itself?
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  Speaker 6: What's facing Alaska and how do you plan to win
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  Speaker 6: despite decoy Dan?
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  Speaker 3: Look, what I'm going to do is what I've always done.
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  Speaker 3: I have a very strong record. for Alaskans. And it's
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  Speaker 3: a vision that Alaskans want, more resource development for our economy,
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  Speaker 3: more jobs, more money in working families' pockets, tax cuts
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  Speaker 3: for our seniors. We are undertaking the biggest military buildup
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  Speaker 3: in our state's history. And let's go back to Peltola.
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  Speaker 3: Two terms in the House, zero bills signed into law.
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  Speaker 3: I have two terms in the Senate, 63 bills signed
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  Speaker 3: into law. And Peltola didn't work. She missed 20 percent
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  Speaker 3: of her votes in the House, 20 percent of her
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  Speaker 3: votes when she was in the State House, and almost
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  Speaker 3: 40 percent of her meetings when she was in the
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  Speaker 3: Bethel City Council. She has 17 years of elected office.
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  Speaker 3: 17 years of not showing up. I work really hard.
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  Speaker 3: Alaskans are the hardest working people in the country. They
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  Speaker 3: need a senator who works hard with them. So what happened?
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  Speaker 3: I'm sure they looked at my record versus her, the
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  Speaker 3: vision that we want for Alaska's versus the Democrats' vision,
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  Speaker 3: which is to shut us down, crush our military. And
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  Speaker 3: so what did they do? They said, Boy, in order
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  Speaker 3: to win, we got to cheat. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 3: they've been focused on for over a year. Her, Schumer,
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  Speaker 3: and they have continued to lie about it right now.
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  Speaker 3: The Schumer DSCC lies about it. Take a look. The
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  Speaker 3: New York Times has the receipts. The New York Times has...
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  Speaker 3: The evidence, this is not he said, she said. They
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  Speaker 3: have dozens of text messages showing how all of these guys,
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  Speaker 3: Peltola's team, Schumer's team, colluded to steal the election from Alaska. Guys,
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  Speaker 3: this is a scandal of the highest order because Schumer
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  Speaker 3: has said his pathway to the majority is through Alaska.
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  Speaker 3: And he wants to be majority leader, and he's cheating
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  Speaker 3: to get there. There's going to be a lot of people,
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  Speaker 3: I think, in some serious trouble here.
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  Speaker 7: Well, there are a number of investigations that are ongoing. Obviously,
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  Speaker 7: we're watching that. Kevin Cork, great to be with you. Dan,
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  Speaker 7: I just want to get on the record. Mary Peltola
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  Speaker 7: is a liar. Is that what you're saying?
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  Speaker 3: Mary Peltola is looking at the Alaskan people and saying
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  Speaker 3: she had no awareness of this incident. Her chief— her main
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  Speaker 3: campaign manager in The New York Times article said that
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  Speaker 3: that's not true. She said, of course she knew about it.
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  Speaker 3: Her campaign— her top chief of staff, who, like I said,
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  Speaker 3: I know him well, I know her well, those two
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  Speaker 3: were joined at the hip.
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  Speaker 1: Everywhere.
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  Speaker 3: They even left the House to become D.C. lobbyists together.
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  Speaker 3: Those two were— Anton McFarlane, her chief of staff, her campaign manager,
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  Speaker 3: were getting weekly updates on this scheme. And Mary Peltola
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  Speaker 3: is telling Alaskans she had no idea about it. I
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  Speaker 3: think that's an absolute lie to the Alaskan people.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Senator Dan Sullivan, again, thank you for your service.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us tonight, and good luck.
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  Speaker 3: Hey, by the way, one more thing, guys. We're going
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  Speaker 3: to win this race. I'm out all over the place.
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  Speaker 3: People see it. They see the cheating. Alaskans know better.
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  Speaker 3: My fellow Alaskans, get out and vote, and here's why
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  Speaker 3: we're going to win. We have the issues on our side.
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  Speaker 3: We have the record, but we have the truth on
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  Speaker 3: our side, and that's going to win the day for Alaska.
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  Speaker 6: All right.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for joining us. All right, still at J-Law.