The following is the transcript of the interview with Attorney General Todd Blance that aired on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" on Oct. 25, 2026.
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And we begin with U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche.
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Your colleague Harmeet Dhillon, whose office would oversee election integrity cases, told my colleagues over at 60 Minutes that, quote, "absent some shocking contingency that's unexpected, there should be no interruption in the usual course of counting and certifying the results in the states."
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Do you share that view?
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Absent- absent some facts that require us to do otherwise, there's President Trump, the Department of Justice- we don't want to have to get a law involved in elections, of course not
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But that doesn't mean that at times any Justice Department doesn't do that and shouldn't do that if the facts and the law require it.
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Well, it seems you already are taking action up in Alaska.
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Just for our audience to understand, there are two Dan Sullivans on the ballot there.
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The Justice Department is suing Alaska preemptively to block the certification of the results if Senator Sullivan loses.
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Now, President Trump was asked about this lawsuit.
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He said quote, "I'm the one that said do it."
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Who did he tell to do this?
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Did he tell you to do this?
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Well, first of all, let me correct you, okay.
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You describe facts that were just simply either at best misleading, but really a lie to your viewers.
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It is not two Dan Sullivans, one an incumbent and one running.
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The head of the Alaska Election Commission, not- not President Trump, not me, has said that the second Dan Sullivan is running solely to confuse voters, solely to pull votes away from the incumbent senator.
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Okay, so that is something that we're dealing with.
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It's not just two Dan Sullivans running on the ballot in Alaska.
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And second, President Trump has been talking about what a travesty this is for many, many, many months, and the Department of Justice has been looking at it for many, many, many months, as we should under federal law.
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And you saw what we did earlier this week- late last week.
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And it was not- it's not to let the federal government take over the Alaska system of selecting their next senator or certifying who's going to be senator.
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It's asking the court to step in where the Alaska Supreme Court didn't, which is to look at federal law, and if necessary, to allow a process for Alaska to decide who should be who should be certified as a winner.
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Well, the Alaska Supreme Court did uphold lower court's ruling on this matter.
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They found the assertion that Mr. Sullivan seeks to confuse or misguide voters is not supported by preponderance of evidence.
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The Alaska Supreme Court did take on this matter.
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I also want to show our viewers what the ballot will look like.
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We have a picture of it.
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No, they didn't.
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Just to make clear here--
AG BLANCHE: That's the state law.
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--this is how the state- in this country, the states administer the elections- this is how the state came up with the issue and how to handle any confusion.
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Our viewers are seeing it right now.
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It's ranked choice voting.
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I mean, you're not- you're not telling the truth.
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They can see that Dan- I'm showing the ballot to the viewers right now.
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It says Dan S. Sullivan is listed as the incumbent.
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Why is that- it says incumbent.
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I don't know if it's sufficient, but I can tell you this: that the director of the Alaska election system has said that it will likely cause confusion, and so, you know, that- you- you can continue to talk and continue to state facts as you want them to be, but that's different than the way that they actually are.
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The Alaska Supreme Court did not rule on the federal law that's implicated in every election, and it is true that it is not often that we have to get involved.
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Take a step back and understand what's happening here.
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