In addition to the presidential contest, Russia, China and Cuba are looking to meddle in congressional races, the officials said.
Foreign adversaries will try to shake Americans’ confidence in the legitimacy of election results in November by giving voice to false claims or spreading their own disinformation about ballot counting, U.S. intelligence officials said Tuesday.
“As we approach Election Day, the intelligence community is also stressing that foreign efforts to undermine America’s democracy won’t end on Nov. 5,” a senior intelligence official told reporters in a virtual briefing.
In its latest assessment of foreign threats to the election, intelligence officials said the main foreign powers seeking to shape the outcome of the vote — Russia, China and Iran — also were focusing on meddling in congressional and state races.
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Conservatives are already planning to use the hurricanes as a reason to not certify the election results. They will be pushing the decision to Congress. This is why they are acting so smug right now.
The only question I have is, “will there be a physical intervention in this final gasp of democracy?” I worry modern progressives may not be violent enough to do what’s needed.