In Alaska race, Trump targets a long, sometimes sordid political tradition of 'spoiler' candidates
President Donald Trump has called for the prosecution of a Democratic Senate candidate whose campaign reportedly put a man with the same name as Alaska's Republican senator on that state's ballot. That campaign trick is a familiar one in American politics. John F. Kennedy used it to win his first election in 1946. Trump's own operation is supporting a so-called spoiler third-party candidate in a…
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