As a Justice Department investigation scrutinizes whether Democrats recruited a Senate candidate to confuse Alaska voters, a big-money effort propping up a different fringe name on the ballot could also hurt Republicans in that race – and in another pivotal contest in Ohio.
Newly created political action committees linked to a Wisconsin operative with a history of election-law violations are spending millions to attack Republican incumbents in Alaska and Ohio from the right and to promote longshot conservative challengers, a CNN investigation found.
