Dana Bash put the Constitution on screen and hid the clause that proves Trump's DOJ is right.
Trump's AG sued this week to stop a Democrat scheme that could steal Dan Sullivan's Alaska Senate seat.
What Blanche said next forced CNN to explain why they were showing America half the Constitution.
Democrats Planted a Fake Dan Sullivan to Exploit Alaska Ranked Choice Voting
Alaska's November Senate ballot features two Republican candidates named Dan Sullivan.
One is Sen. Dan Sullivan, a two-term incumbent and Trump ally fighting for his political life in one of the most competitive Senate races in the country.
The other is Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., a retired teacher from Petersburg whom Republicans – including Trump himself – have accused of entering the race specifically to pull votes away from the real Sullivan and hand the seat to Democrat Mary Peltola.
Alaska's own Division of Elections tried to kick the imposter off the ballot, ruling that Daniel J. Sullivan had filed his candidacy "with a purpose to confuse or mislead and to thereby compromise the ballot's fairness or neutrality."
The Alaska Supreme Court overturned that decision.
Alaska uses ranked choice voting – the same convoluted system Democrats have used to engineer outcomes across the state for years.
Under ranked choice, a confused voter who marks the wrong Dan Sullivan first hands their vote directly to the imposter, with no path to correct it.
Sen. Sullivan has called ranked choice voting a recipe for exactly this kind of confusion since 2020.
Republicans dubbed the challenger "Sham Candidate Sullivan" – and his ties to Democratic operatives who previously supported Peltola made the motive obvious.
Trump didn't let it go.
Trump told reporters he personally pushed the Justice Department to take legal action – "I'm the one that said, do it."
The DOJ filed suit under the National Voter Registration Act, demanding the court block Alaska from certifying results if the imposter candidate's vote total could have swung the race.
Alaska could decide which party controls the Senate – and a fake candidate named Dan Sullivan could be the margin that hands the gavel back to Chuck Schumer.
Dana Bash Cut the Part of the Elections Clause That Proves the DOJ Right
Sunday morning on CNN, host Dana Bash put Article I, Section 4 on screen – the Elections Clause – while challenging Blanche on the DOJ's authority to intervene.
She highlighted only the first half, the part that says states set the rules for congressional elections, and stopped there.
What she didn't show viewers is the second half of that same clause – the part that grants Congress the power to override those state rules at any time by law.
Blanche caught it immediately.
"Conveniently, you put up the Constitution on your screen, but you highlighted only the first clause," Blanche said.
He wasn't finished.
"Why don't you show the next clause to your viewers, which says that Congress is allowed to pass laws to make sure that that happens? Put that back up there."
Bash had no good answer.
The law the DOJ is relying on – the National Voter Registration Act – is a real federal statute that has been on the books since 1993.
Blanche wasn't inventing jurisdiction – he was reading the part of the Constitution CNN cut off.
Media Research Center President David Bozell said Bash was running a "magic act" on live television – that an anchor's job is to give viewers the full constitutional text, not the convenient portion, and that the trick fell apart the moment she was asked to show the rest.
This is what the media does every time election integrity comes up.
They find the piece of the law that fits their story, put it on screen with graphics and chyrons, and act like the question is settled.
They're counting on the fact that most viewers won't demand the rest of the document.
Blanche read the whole law.
Article I, Section 4 gives Congress explicit authority to override state election rules – and Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act in 1993 to exercise exactly that authority.
Trump finally found an AG willing to take it to federal court – and willing to catch a CNN anchor editing the Constitution in real time.
The ACLU and Democrat Senate candidate Mary Peltola's campaign have already filed motions to intervene in the case – and when the people fighting to keep the imposter Sullivan on the ballot are the Democrats and the ACLU, you already know exactly what kind of operation Trump's DOJ was built to stop.
Sources:
- CJ Womack, "Todd Blanche challenges Dana Bash for only citing part of Constitution during heated election clash," Fox News, October 25, 2026.
- "Alaska's Senate Race Just Got More Confusing: 2 Republican Dan Sullivans Advance," The Daily Signal, August 26, 2026.
- "Third Dan Sullivan weighs in on unprecedented Alaska Senate race with endorsement," Washington Examiner, August 24, 2026.
- "Dan Sullivan Advances to Face Dan Sullivan in Alaska Senate Race," Notus, August 2026.
