Who Is Gerald Heikes? Trump Wants Alaska Votes Given to Dan Sullivan
President Donald Trump said votes for two Alaska Senate candidates should go to Dan Sullivan, but state law says otherwise.
Gerald Heikes, a Republican candidate in Alaska's U.S. Senate race, garnered around 4,846 votes, or about 2.3 percent of the total, according to the latest unofficial results. He was one of three candidates running against incumbent Senator Dan Sullivan, who received 102,962 votes, or 48.2 percent, and Democrat Mary Peltola, with 102,325 votes, or 47.9 percent.
The race remains unresolved as no candidate has secured a majority. Trump proposed on social media that votes for both Heikes and the "other 'slug,' " Daniel J. Sullivan Jr., should be transferred to Sullivan. However, legal expert Jeff Feldman explained that Alaska law does not allow for such a blanket transfer of votes, and the current tabulation process will only add votes to candidates who are still in the running, not to the lower-performing candidates.
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