Trump threatens 'powerful legal options' to keep candidate off the ballot in key state

President Donald Trump took to Truth Social late Wednesday night to express alarm over the possibility that Republicans could lose a key Senate seat in Alaska, and threatened legal action to remove a candidate from the ballot.And he is threatening to run to the courts with less than two weeks to go before election day.Trump wrote that he is “very concerned” about Sen. Dan S. Sullivan (R-AK), who faces leading Democratic challenger Mary Peltola, a former congresswoman, and also another Dan J. Sullivan, a retired teacher from Petersburg. Trump and others fear that having two Sullivans on the Nov. 3 ballot could hurt the incumbent if voters mistakenly vote for the wrong one.Trump and other Republicans have accused the second Sullivan of being "a sham candidate" who is running only to siphon votes from the senator, an accusation he denies. The senator has accused Democrats of planting him. Peltola, state...