{"id":2699171,"date":"2026-11-05T12:56:01","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:56:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-numbers-decoy-candidate-could-cost-republicans-a-senate-seat-as-alaska-race-comes-down-to-the-wire\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T12:58:05","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T17:58:05","slug":"latest-numbers-decoy-candidate-could-cost-republicans-a-senate-seat-as-alaska-race-comes-down-to-the-wire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/latest-numbers-decoy-candidate-could-cost-republicans-a-senate-seat-as-alaska-race-comes-down-to-the-wire\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Numbers: &#8216;Decoy&#8217; Candidate Could Cost Republicans a Senate Seat as Alaska Race Comes Down to the Wire"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">36<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flatest-numbers-decoy-candidate-could-cost-republicans-a-senate-seat-as-alaska-race-comes-down-to-the-wire%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2699171&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Republicans got more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/jake-tapper-notes-hunter-biden-investigation-lara-trump-fires-glad-you-finally-figured-that-out\/\" title=\"Jake Tapper Notes Hunter Biden Investigation; Lara Trump Fires: \u2018Glad You Finally Figured That Out\u2019\">bad news<\/a> Tuesday: in the Alaska Senate race an apparent dirty trick &#8211; a &#8220;decoy&#8221; candidate &#8211; might potentially be succeeding. With the contest razor-thin, that tactic could cost the GOP a Senate seat. This report originally ran on The western Journal. Do you want me to do something with this excerpt? I can:<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Summarize it in one sentence.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Rewrite it (neutral, persuasive, or sensational tone).<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Expand it into a short article or social-media post.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Fact-check and provide background on &#8220;decoy&#8221; candidates and Alaska&#8217;s race.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; Suggest headlines or subheads.<\/p>\n<p>Tell me which and any preferred tone\/length. <br \/> <br \/>\n    Read more&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>The bad news that poured over Republicans on Tuesday isn\u2019t getting any better. In the Alaska Senate race, one of the dirtiest tricks in modern politics appeared to be paying [\u2026] The post Latest Numbers: &#8216;Decoy&#8217; Candidate Could Cost Republicans a Senate Seat as Alaska Race Comes Down to the Wire appeared first on The Western Journal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alaska race: decoy candidate could cost GOP a seat<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[52920,87510,6571,3756,3740],"class_list":["post-2699171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-alaska-2","tag-decoy-candidate","tag-elections","tag-republicans","tag-senate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2699171"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2699174,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699171\/revisions\/2699174"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}