The Senate Majority Leader said Democrats were just trying to make political hay on the heels of the Mueller testimony.
One day after former special counsel Robert Mueller issued a stark warning that the Russians are actively seeking to interfere once again in the U.S. elections and called for aggressive deterrence measures, Senate Democrats sought passage of multiple election security bills only to be stopped by Republican Leader Mitch McConnell for a second time this week."Mueller's testimony was a clarion call for election security," Schumer said.
"There's something I can hint at, but I can't go into specifics. There is interference going on, and a lot of it was going on before the 2018 election," Grassley said, referencing information gleaned from a closed-door briefing."But what I can't tell you -- because it was a secured briefing -- is there was a lot of success stopping it."
But the Kentucky Republican, who is running for a fifth term in 2020, has shut down nearly every effort to bring election security to the Senate floor. Grassley told reporters Thursday that he wants to see that bill, for which he voted, considered by the Senate. He also added that he would favor the House bill Schumer tried to pass on Thursday if"you took out things in it that federalize state elections."
"I've had folks say, 'We need to hurry to get money out the door to the states so they can buy new systems, but that's just not going to happen," Lankford said, noting that there is no way to install equipment and test it in time for 2020 primaries."It's really 2022 that we're talking about here."
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