With Marc Elias involved, you KNOW dirty tricks are afoot in Alaska race

Of course Democratic arch-dirty-trickster Marc Elias is neck-deep in the swampy Senate steal in Alaska, but don’t expect any members of the “we must save our democracy” party to utter a peep about it.

Outrage has been building over the effort to deceive voters of the Last Frontier by running another Dan Sullivan in the race against incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan — and so let challenger Mary Peltola squeak through to victory thanks to the state’s ranked-choice-voting rules.

Now it seems the scheme was orchestrated by the very guy who gave us the Trump-smearing Steele Dossier, supercharged the flow of dark money into politics, engineered countless 2020 voter-rules changes that boosted Democrats and masterminded the judicial resistance of Trump’s second term.

The operative’s Elias Law Group served as counsel to both the Peltola campaign and the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, with New York Times reporting putting at least one Elias attorney at the heart of the effort to recruit a conveniently-named retired forest service employee with no prior political experience (or apparent interest) to enter the state’s non-partisan Senate primary race.

And of course the “extra” Dan Sullivan, though now registered as a Republican, was assisted and funded every step of the way by Democratic operatives and donors, largely affiliated with the Elias network.

Peltola campaigns as an anti-politician, yet her campaign was working with the ultimate Democratic political operative’s firm to pull off a quintessential inside-baseball dirty trick.

It may well be a federal crime, as a conspiracy to deceive and injure the public’s exercise of constitutional voting rights.

Marc Elias is right at home in this murk: He was Hillary Clinton’s campaign cutout in hiring smear-artist firm Fusion GPS to order up the Steele disinformation package central to the Russiagate hoax; he signed on to help Black Lives Matter when its nonprofit’s leadership couldn’t account for how they’d spent tens of millions of dollars.

Elias was also the prime mover behind legislation and litigation to permit foreigners, billionaires and foreign billionaires to pour money into the US electoral system — what Democrats now bewail as “dark money” (but only when Republicans use it).

He is, in short, an expert at both the sleaziest political operations and painting his Democrats as innocent victims of GOP misconduct.

Marc Elias was the perfect guy to help Mary Peltola plot to steal a US Senate seat even as she plays the innocent outsider.