President Donald Trump urged Alaska voters Tuesday night to back Ballot Measure 2 and repeal ranked choice voting, branding the system a Democrat scam built to cheat.

Speaking in Wasilla, Trump stumped for incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan and pressed the crowd to kill the state’s ranked-choice system before the next cycle can twist another race. He told voters the setup lets candidates enter strong and finish weaker after opaque reallocation rounds no ordinary Alaskan can track.

Trump framed Ballot Measure 2 as the clean fix. A yes vote, he said, means repeal. The Washington Examiner reported his direct appeal to end what he called a rigged process that Democrats are already gaming.

Alaska runs a top-four primary. The four highest vote-getters advance from the August contest. In the general election, voters can rank up to four candidates. The lowest drops each round. Ballots get reapportioned or exhausted until someone clears 50 percent. Trump said that machinery is the problem.

Trump brands the system a built-in cheat

He did not soften the charge. Ranked choice, in his telling, is designed to confuse voters and reward operators who know how to work the back end.

Trump told the Wasilla crowd:

"You go in No. 1, you come out No. 2, No. 3. Nobody knows what they’re doing back there. They know what they’re doing. It’s a scam. It’s a Dumocrat scam, and you got to repeal it,"

He kept returning to the same point. The process looks orderly on paper and produces results most people never expected when they marked their first-choice ballot. That gap, he argued, is not a bug. It is the point.

Trump has spent recent months pressing accountability fights on multiple fronts, including moves that asked Kimberly Guilfoyle to step aside after pay-to-play questions. The Alaska speech fit the same pattern: name the failure, demand a clear fix, and refuse to treat a flawed process as settled law.

He went further on the motive behind keeping ranked choice alive.

"All it is is a way to cheat,"

That line landed as the core of his case. If the public cannot see how a first-place finish becomes a loss after several elimination rounds, trust collapses. Trump said Alaska should not wait for another cycle to prove the point.

Ballot wording and the spoiler threat

Trump spent time on the ballot language itself. He warned voters the measure is worded oddly and walked them through what a yes vote actually does.

He said:

"You know they word them a little strange. It means yes, we’re going to repeal. That’s what it means. Yes. So vote yes. We’re going to repeal in this election,"

The instruction was simple. Vote yes. Repeal. Do not get lost in the phrasing.

He also tied the fight to Sen. Dan Sullivan’s race. Republicans have accused Democrats of backing Dan J. Sullivan, a retired teacher running for the U.S. Senate in 2026, as a tool to siphon votes from the incumbent under the ranked-choice rules. Same last name. Different man. In a system that reallocates rankings after each elimination, a spoiler does not need to win. He only needs to scramble the order.

Trump’s broader posture has included amplifying pressure on officials he views as weaponizing process, a theme that also surfaced when he highlighted whistleblower claims against Letitia James. In Wasilla the target was the voting method itself, not a single prosecutor.

Why ranked choice keeps drawing fire

Trump argued Alaska is not alone. Other places are already dumping the system. He cast ranked choice as a national joke that only survives where voters have not yet forced the issue.

He put it this way:

"You got to get out, if for no other reason, you got to repeal rank choice. It’s a joke all over the country, and everyone else is repealing."

And he closed the case with a direct order to kill it:

"You’ve got to terminate it and get it out because it’s no good, it’s bad for your system, so bad for your state, and we gotta be careful."

The warning was practical. Once a system rewards confusion and late-round math over a clear first-choice majority, every future race sits on shaky ground. Trump told Alaskans the remedy is on the ballot now.

That same insistence on cleaning house has marked other recent moves, from weighing hard personnel calls to standing up a formal probe of Fed Governor Lisa Cook over mortgage-fraud allegations. Election rules, in this view, deserve the same scrutiny.

Sen. Dan Sullivan stood as the local beneficiary of the speech. Trump’s visit was a stump stop for the incumbent as much as a lecture on ballot design. The message to voters was that protecting Sullivan and repealing ranked choice run on the same ticket: stop the games, keep the seat, restore a system people can follow without a spreadsheet.

Trump has also tested party-boundary plays, including an open invitation for Sen. John Fetterman to leave the Democrats. The Alaska pitch stayed inside the state fight, but the through-line is familiar, draw clear lines, reward clarity, and refuse to accept process tricks as normal politics.

Ballot Measure 2 gives Alaska voters a straight yes-or-no on whether ranked choice stays. Trump’s answer was unambiguous. Repeal it. Vote yes. End the scam before the next round of reallocated ballots decides another race in the back room.

When the rules hide the real winner until the third or fourth cut, citizens stop trusting the count, and self-government cannot run on that fog.