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Criminal investigation into Alaska Democrat’s Senate campaign

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Alaska’s governor has ordered a criminal investigation into Democrat Mary Peltola’s Senate campaign after allegations it tried to sabotage Republican Senator Dan Sullivan by recruiting a candidate with the same name. NBC News’ Ryan Nobles reports.

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What the coverage shows

The coverage converges on a same-name candidate controversy in Alaska’s Senate race and on scrutiny of Mary Peltola’s campaign, with multiple outlets framing it as an investigation or probe. NBC News and CBS News emphasize the criminal-investigation angle and subpoenas, while Fox News, The Guardian US, and CNBC foreground the alleged scheme and its political stakes. Reason and the New York Times stand apart by treating it more as an election-law or ballot-stacking issue, and NPR’s later item is the outlier, shifting away from the controversy to fish as a campaign issue.

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