A Plan for Two Dans: How Democrats Manipulated Alaska’s Ballot
The Daily

A Plan for Two Dans: How Democrats Manipulated Alaska’s Ballot

B1IntermediateOctober 29, 202626 min
  • Politics

An investigation from The New York Times has uncovered how two candidates named Dan Sullivan ended up on the ballot for U.S. Senate in Alaska and the secret role that Democrats played in making it happen. Kellen Browning, a political reporter for The Times, takes us inside the political scheme and explains what it means for a race that could determine which party controls the Senate. Guest: Kellen Browning, a political reporter for The New York Times in San Francisco. Background reading: Inside Democrats’ secret effort to stack Alaska’s ballot.After...

Play episode

Opens the player: the full transcript, every word clickable, with translation and flashcards.

Try it: tap any word

Real sentences from the start of this episode. Every word is marked with its level.

Sentence 1 of 12 · 0:00

, .

This is The Daily.

Hear this sentence

Tap a word to see its meaning in your language.

Do you know these words?

8 harder words from this episode. Tap one to see what it means, then mark it.

  • B21:46
  • B23:42
  • C18:19
  • C112:16
  • B215:50
  • C121:11
  • C122:43
  • B225:49

Mark a few words and we'll tell you how this episode fits your level.

Is this episode right for you?

B1

B1 · Intermediate

Fine if you can follow simple news

A1 35%A2 28%B1 21%B2 13%C1 3%
  • 84% of the words are B1 or easier.
  • 167 words a minute: natural, fairly fast speech.
  • 130 harder words (B2 and up) in the whole episode.

Transcript

The opening of the episode. The whole transcript is in the player.

0:00

From The New York Times, I'm Michael Balbarro. This is The Daily. Control of the Senate may come down to Dan Sullivan, but which Dan Sullivan? A new investigation from The Times has uncovered the real story of how two different candidates

0:21

named Dan Sullivan ended up on the ballot for U.S. Senate in Alaska, and the secret role that Democrats played in making it happen. I'm talking about the real Dan Sullivan, not the fake Dan Sullivan. Not the Dan Sullivan put up by the Democrats.

0:40

This fake Dan Sullivan guy is not in it to win it. He's in it to rig it. It's just a guy with the same name. Dirty trick.

That was the opening. The rest of the episode (26 min) is in the player: every word clickable, with translation, saved words and flashcards.

Continue in the player

Automatically generated from the audio. May contain errors. Audio belongs to its publisher and is played from their feed. Rights holders can request removal — copyright & takedown policy