Former Vice President Joe Biden might lose the 2020 presidential election due to Russian interference, according to his running mate, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-Calif.)
Asked in an interview with CNN on Sept. 6 if the Russian interference could cost Biden the White House, Harris said “theoretically, of course, yes.”
“I am clear that Russia interfered in the election of president of the United States in 2016. I serve on the Senate Intelligence Committee. We have published detailed reports about exactly what we believe happened. And I do believe that there will be foreign interference in the 2020 election, and that Russia will be at the front of the line.”
The National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) assessed in July that China, Russia, and Iran are actively attempting to influence the outcome of the 2020 election. NCSC Director William Evanina said last month that China prefers for President Donald Trump to lose the 2020 election, while Russia is working to boost Trumps chances.
Despite the foreign influence, the U.S. electoral system is uniquely resilient to foreign interference, due in part to the diverse systems employed by each state. According to the NSCS, state-level checks and post-election auditing make it virtually impossible for a foreign adversary to broadly disrupt the electoral process or change vote tallies without detection.
While suggesting that Russia threatens the integrity of the election, Harris alleged that Trump is doing the same by “trying to convince the American people not to believe in the integrity of our election system and compromise their belief that their vote might actually count.” She also suggested that “classic voter suppression” is at play and alleged that states have passed laws “designed to suppress the black vote, to suppress students from voting, to suppress our indigenous people from voting.
The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, on which Harris sits, recently reaffirmed the assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election in order to help Trump win.
Harris made Sundays remarks days after Biden challenged Attorney General William Barrs assessment that China, rather than Russia, is the main election security threat in 2020.
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