WAPO in a story about how everyone is attacking Peltola's campaign now over the Sullivan thing points out "both parties" did stuff that seems underhanded. The GOP it turns out spent millions of dollars advertising for Dem candidates that they thought were weak trying to use the ranked choice to get weaker Dem candidates running against Sullivan. WAPO points out whoever decided to run the other Sullivan, whether or not Peltola knew, the point of doing so was to COUNTER the GOP attempting to buy weak Dem candidates as opponents.
They need to get dirty money out of politics but my guess is can't put it back in the bottle now