AG Blanche Tells CNN's Dana Bash 'You Are Not Being a Real Person' for Asking if Trump Wants to Overturn the Midterms Over Alaska

Attorney General Todd Blanche pushed back hard on CNN's Dana Bash on Sunday over whether President Trump wants to overturn the midterm elections, Breitbart News reports.

The question. Bash cited a Truth Social post in which Trump said, "Democrats are trying to steal this important Republican seat." She said, "He's admitting it's political," and asked whether Blanche sees his job as helping Republicans keep the seat. The topic was the Justice Department's lawsuit over the Alaska Senate race.

The answer. Blanche said the president is not admitting anything political. "He's the executive. He's supposed to make sure that there is everything in this country is running right," he said, arguing that a president raising a ballot problem is not automatically political.

The exchange. Bash asked whether Trump is "laying the groundwork" for a scenario, one Blanche himself called a "doomsday scenario" a couple of days earlier, in which Trump tries to overturn an election, and she mentioned what happened after Jan. 6. Blanche answered, "Oh, stop it! You've gotta stop it with that! You are not being a real person! Come on man, That is crazy!" Bash replied, "It is not crazy." Blanche said the department is concerned about "an absolute fraud happening in Alaska" and that "we're not laying any groundwork for the president to do that."

Context. We covered the underlying suit on Oct. 24. The Justice Department asked a court to stop Alaska from certifying Senate results if Sen. Dan Sullivan loses because of a same-named challenger it says entered the race to confuse voters.

Note for readers: this is a short transcript of one interview as Breitbart presents it. The allegation of fraud in Alaska is Blanche's and the department's, and the piece offers no evidence beyond what the earlier lawsuit coverage reported. A court has not ruled on the suit. We did not watch the broadcast.