Failed MAGA Mouthpiece Melts Down Live on Global Stage

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Trump’s short-lived White House press secretary has taken her on-air brawling international.

Trump’s short-lived White House press secretary has taken her on-air brawling international.

Katie Zacharia appeared on the BBC’s Newsnight program on Tuesday to discuss the Republican Party’s midterm losses. When host Victoria Derbyshire, 58, pressed her on JD Vance’s claim that the Iran war sank the party, the 41-year-old pointed instead to Alaska, where two candidates named Dan Sullivan appeared on the Senate ballot, which Republicans claim was a Democratic ploy to confuse voters.

Derbyshire wasn’t buying it. “Why didn’t JD Vance mention the Sullivans and Alaska?” she asked.

“You don’t want to answer the question because you know it’s not fair. You know that that was a setup. It is so clearly a setup, and that is why it is being investigated right now.”

“This is not some random obscurity. This is two Dan Sullivans that were on the ballot in Alaska,” she said.

Zacharia says the race was muddied by challenger Dan J. Sullivan, a retired Petersburg teacher with no party listed on the ballot.

When the host tried to cut in, Zacharia pointed to the press. “The New York Times had an answer,” she said. “Did you read that? Did you read what the New York Times came out with? Yes or no?”

Zacharia is referring to a New York Times investigation into Alaska’s Dan-on-Dan ballot drama. The report argued that Petersburg’s Daniel J. Sullivan Jr.’s candidacy resulted from a coordinated Democratic scheme to get him on the ballot

The incumbent was locked in a tight race with Democrat Mary Peltola, a former congresswoman. According to the Times, Peltola’s team worked with operatives trying to recruit the Petersburg Sullivan, and senior DSCC aides helped push him into the race. The confusion over the shared name, the Times wrote, “could cost the senator crucial votes.”

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