The FBI has begun reaching out to donors of Dan Sullivan asking about potential deception, as federal authorities ramped up their investigation of the US Senate candidate in Alaska who shares a identify with the Republican incumbent.

Agents have contacted donors in at least two distant communities in Alaska and a couple in Massachusetts.

An Anchorage-based FBI agent visited a boat dealership in Petersburg, a small fishing group accessible only by air or water where the candidate lives.

Dan Sullivan, a candidate in Alaska’s Senate race, whose donors have been contacted by the FBI about potential deception. AP Photo/Becky Bohrer

The agent left a enterprise card for Charles Flint, who informed the Associated Press he has identified Dan Sullivan for years as a revered instructor and musician.

The FBI visits came after federal officers confirmed the existence of a felony probe over the candidate. The US Department of Justice also pushed Friday for a court docket order to isolate certain Alaska ballots to examine potential voter confusion.

Flint contributed $500 over the summer season to what he thought of a long-shot marketing campaign, saying he knew Dan Sullivan would have bills and revered him for “throwing his hat in the ring.”

Flint said the FBI agent requested his son, who works at the dealership, whether Flint felt he had been “misled” about which candidate he was supporting.

“I don’t feel like I’ve been misled at all,” Flint, who has been out of city, informed the AP in a phone interview, including he had no intention of calling the agent but would “let him waste his time trying to track me down.”

Alaska US Attorney Michael Heyman said the federal investigation has been ongoing for several months. Getty Images

“I don’t think there’s any confusion,” he said, including he intends to rank Democrat Mary Peltola first on his poll, adopted by Dan Sullivan. “Everybody knows who the incumbent is.”

President Trump was requested about the case on Saturday evening, during a Halloween social gathering at his Mar-a-Lago property, and called it “voter fraud at the highest level.”

He also steered that Dan Sullivan had gone into hiding: “Nobody can find him now, so he knows he’s guilty.”

Dan Sullivan arms out sweet at a Halloween occasion in Big Lake, Alaska, Oct. 31, 2026. AP Photo/Lindsey Wasson

The president also steered, with out offering particulars, that high Democratic leaders outside the state could have been concerned, and that they should be prosecuted.

Alaska US Attorney Michael Heyman informed reporters in Anchorage the federal investigation has been ongoing for several months, but latest revelations from The New York Times that Peltola’s marketing campaign appeared to be concerned in recruiting retired instructor Dan Sullivan have resulted in a “significant surge of law enforcement assets to Alaska.”

Two totally different FBI brokers were dispatched to Sitka to conduct a transient interview at the doorstep of another donor.

President Trump shakes arms with Sullivan during a rally in Wasilla, Alaska, Oct. 13, 2026. AFP via Getty Images

That donor, who requested that their identify not be printed given the ongoing investigation, said the brokers requested whether the contribution had been made to the Sullivan the donor meant.

The dialog lasted about 5 minutes, the donor informed the AP.

The donor said the brokers were “scrupulously polite” and emphasised that the dialog was totally voluntary.

Alaska Democratic Senate candidate Mary Peltola has denied involvement in a plan to siphon votes from Sullivan. Getty Images

Yet another donor, Pat Campbell, of Groton, Massachusetts, said a couple of FBI brokers came to her door Friday and spoke with her husband.

“They said they were from the FBI and investigating fraud in election contributions,” Campbell wrote in a textual content message to AP. “No, we had not been defrauded. We knew to whom we had contributed.”

The developments come just days before Tuesday’s ranked selection normal election in a probably pivotal race in which Peltola, a former congresswoman, is difficult Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan.

At a marketing campaign rally in Anchorage on Friday, Peltola again denied involvement in any plan to place candidates on the poll to detract from the incumbent senator.

She said she was “deeply offended” by the allegations, which she called “garbage” and half of a “smear campaign” to suppress turnout on the eve of the election.

“I know I can beat Dan Sullivan. I do not need any help winning this race,” she informed a small group of marketing campaign volunteers at an Anchorage aviation museum.