Dick Durbin suggested Mitch McConnell is ignoring election security legislation because Russian meddling helped Republicans in 2016
Sen. Dick Durbin suggested Tuesday that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell wasn’t putting election security legislation up for a vote because Republicans benefited from Russian interference in the 2016 election.
The Democratic whip’s remarks come after McConnell declared in a floor speech Tuesday “case closed” on special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.“There are two possibilities,” Durbin said. “He really doesn’t believe it, he doesn’t think the Russians were involved in 2016.
McConnell fired back at Democratic criticism in his floor speech Tuesday morning, blasting Democrats for mocking Sen. John McCain and then-Governor Mitt Romney for warning about the danger of Russian President Vladimir Putin. “Maybe stronger leadership would have left the Kremlin less emboldened. Maybe tampering with our democracy wouldn’t have seemed so very tempting,” he said.
McConnell also added that Congress has taken action on election security by appropriating millions of dollars to states to improve their election systems.
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