Episode
This Senate Race Just Got VERY Strange
- Podcast
- Bulwark Takes
- Published
- May 31, 2026
- Duration seconds
- 854
- Processing state
not_requested- Canonical source
- https://audioboom.com/posts/8909981
Actions
POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/bulwark-takes-7201724/episodes/this-senate-race-just-got-very-strange/transcription-requests
Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/bulwark-takes-7201724/this-senate-race-just-got-very-strange.md
Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.
Summary
Catherine Rampell and Will Sommer take on one of the strangest stories in American politics: a mystery candidate named Dan Sullivan has entered the Alaska Senate race—as a Republican—to run against the incumbent Republican senator also named Dan Sullivan. Who recruited him, why does his photo look AI-generated, and why is a Peltola-aligned strategist's name buried in the press release metadata?