Political campaigns and committees spent approximately 3.5 billion dollars during the 2024 United States presidential election

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In its Alaska election lawsuit, the United States Department of Justice argued that votes cast for Dan J. Sullivan Jr. were intended for Dan S. Sullivan and should be redistributed

Federal district and appeals courts denied the Trump administration's requests for a restraining order and emergency order regarding California ballots

Criminal subpoenas were issued to California state and local officials as part of Trump administration election litigation

Prior to ballot counting in the 2026 midterm elections, the Trump administration filed lawsuits in federal court challenging election results in Alaska and California

Alaska state court litigation determined that general election ballots would identify Dan S. Sullivan as the incumbent senator and Dan J. Sullivan Jr. as a non-incumbent

The United States Department of Justice filed a lawsuit seeking to block Alaska state officials from certifying election results if Dan J. Sullivan Jr.'s presence altered the outcome

In the Alaska United States Senate race, incumbent Dan S. Sullivan ran against Democrat Mary Peltola and candidate Dan J. Sullivan Jr.

In California, the Trump administration litigated to require counties to set aside up to 20,000 ballots alleged to have been cast by noncitizens

Mary Peltola denied involvement in the candidacy of Dan J. Sullivan Jr.

The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee denied involvement with Dan J. Sullivan Jr.

Dan J. Sullivan Jr. stated to The Wall Street Journal that no outside party influenced Dan J. Sullivan Jr.'s decision to run for the United States Senate in Alaska

The Texas United States Senate race between Democrat James Talarico and Republican Ken Paxton accumulated 569 million dollars in advertising spending

Donald Trump's 2024 presidential campaign spent hundreds of millions of dollars on advertisements attacking Kamala Harris regarding taxpayer funding for transgender medical procedures

AdImpact recorded total campaign advertising expenditures for the 2026 midterm election cycle at 11.55 billion dollars

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Donald Trump established an alliance in 2024 centered on the Make America Healthy Again political platform

Reducing the prevalence of politically like-minded content in user feeds during the 2020 US presidential election had no measurable effect on affective polarization, ideological extremity, candidate evaluations, or belief in false claims

Experimental algorithmic modifications across a three-month period during the 2020 US election produced no detectable changes in participants' political attitudes

The experimental reduction of politically like-minded content in the 2020 Facebook and Instagram Election Research Study was administered for a three-month duration during an active presidential election campaign

Donald Trump won New York's 21st congressional district by 21 percentage points in the 2024 presidential election

Alaska Governor Mike Dunleavy requested a state investigation into whether election laws were violated regarding candidate recruitment in the 2026 Alaska U.S. Senate race