![]() ![]() ![]() Senate (triggered after Georgia’s two U.S. Referring to Georgia's upcoming special election on January 5 that will determine control of the U.S. Although Montanaro wasn’t surprised about Trump’s refusal to concede, he was surprised about the number of Republicans who have enabled him. “President Trump has become the first president in the modern television era to not concede,” said Montanaro. They do something surreptitious, but it’s not in the magnitude and order it would need to be able to overturn this election.” “Once in a while you’ll have people who will fill out the wrong ballot. As National Public Radio's senior political editor and correspondent, Montanaro appears on air and online for NPR, delivering analysis of the political climate in Washington and campaigns.ĭisputing Trump’s false claims, Montanaro said there has been no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. UD alumnus and CPC senior fellow Domenico Montanaro (AS01) gave a post-election update. “Russia has become such a toxic part of our domestic politics, it’s become this third rail.” With suspicion and hostility on both sides, “I don’t think this incoming administration is predisposed to try to find any common ground with Russia.” The allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election brought US-Russian relations to a nadir, said Ioffe. “And, if you’re the leader of a foreign country or the leader of a foreign intelligence service you’d be an idiot not to take him up on that.” Referring to a June 2019 ABC News interview, “ said it to George Stephanopoulos on camera, when he was asked, ‘Would you take foreign help to win your election?' And he said ‘Absolutely,’” said Ioffe. The Chinese were meddling in the election.” “We saw that the Iranians were meddling in this election. ![]() “And then saying again openly, China, you want to help me out? Ukraine, you want to help me?”įollowing President Trump’s acquittal of impeachment charges last February, “we saw the Colombian government interfering and selling ads or broadcasting ads in the Miami area saying that Biden was a socialist,” said Ioffe. The fact that there were no real consequences for him for inviting openly on camera inviting Russian interference during the 2016 campaign.” she said. “I think what was very different in this election than in 2016 and in the aftermath of 2016 is that Donald Trump threw it wide open. And today, for example, the Deputy Foreign Minister of Russia said, ‘We’re not even going to talk to the Biden transition team until a new president is sworn in in January.’” “Vladimir Putin has yet to congratulate Joe Biden. It is still unclear how much Russia may have disrupted the 2020 presidential election, “but the Russians are trying to be a bit more careful,” said Ioffe. Born in Moscow, Ioffe’s family moved to America when she was seven years old. Lindsay Hoffman, Ph.D., director of the National Agenda program, led the discussion.Īs a former staff writer at The Atlantic and former Russian correspondent for The New Yorker, Ioffe has become a leading authority on Russian-US relations, with expertise built on years of in-depth reporting in Russia. She joined the National Agenda 2020 webinar series, "We Are the People," hosted by the Center for Political Communication. Talking about Russian interference in the 2020 presidential election is very much fighting the last war, said Julia Ioffe, a correspondent at GQ Magazine. With allegations of widespread voter fraud, have Russian interests returned to infiltrate the system four years later? On November 11, the University of Delaware welcomed two political journalists to set the record straight and predict what voters can expect between Election Day and Inauguration Day. Read the transcript. To learn more about the National Agenda student experience, read " Keeping the Conversation Going" by CPC intern and National Agenda student Sean O'Connor.ĭECEMBER 14, 2020-Russian interference deeply marked the 2016 presidential election. By Laura Matusheski, University of Delaware junior and intern for the University of Delaware Center for Political Communication ![]()
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