President Donald Trump’s administration pressed a criminal investigation into Alaska’s pivotal U.S. Senate race and said on Saturday it would likely take its fight over thousands of California mail-in ballots to the Supreme Court, as the midterm campaign for control of Congress entered its final weekend. In Alaska, federal prosecutors are investigating whether aides to Democratic challenger Mary Peltola helped to recruit a retired schoolteacher, Daniel J.
Sullivan Jr., to run because his name is similar to the Republican incumbent, Sen. The closely contested race is seen as crucial to Democrats’ hopes of taking the Senate in Tuesday’s vote. It is one of 35 Senate races, along with all 435 House seats, that will decide whether Trump’s Republicans keep control of Congress for his final two years in office.
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