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Alaska Republicans push back on Trump's bid to block Senate election results

Alaska officials criticized the legal basis on which the Trump administration has argued it has standing to intervene in the election. (Becky Bohrer / AP) The Republican-led state government in Alaska implored a federal judge on Saturday to permanently dismiss the Trump administration’s lawsuit that seeks to block the certification of the Alaska Senate race if GOP Sen. Dan S. Sullivan loses. “The United States’ opposition provides no reason for this Court to entertain this meritless lawsuit any