“The American people, through a free, fair, and open election, are entitled to their choice. Those of us in the Senate have to, I think, follow our role, as the Founders envisioned it, to serve as a speed bump, or in some cases a block.”
“I am concerned there is already a diminution of focus on one of the most important strategic developments in recent years: the idea that our adversary Russia intentionally undermined our presidential election with a concerted campaign of cyberattacks, disinformation, strategically timed news releases…that was done with approval at the highest levels of Russia, with the intention to affect the outcome.”
WILMINGTON, Del. - In case you missed it, U.S. Senator Chris Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, yesterday joined the ‘Rational Security’ podcast to discuss a wide range of foreign policy and national security issues, including the urgent need to investigate Russian interference in the U.S. election, the importance of standing by our allies, the prospects for bipartisan cooperation on foreign policy issues in the Senate, and the need for Congress to protect development assistance.