What Does “Election Interference” Even Imply Anymore?

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How has a phrase that only a decade in the past had a slender, technical definition come to basically symbolize something political that we don’t like? Jon Allsop, who writes Columbia Journalism Evaluation’s every day publication and contributed final week to The New Yorker, joins Tyler Foggatt to debate how “election interference” has develop into a ubiquitous time period and what that signifies about the way forward for American political discourse. “It’s a undertaking that’s designed to insulate candidates towards dropping, whether or not they truly lose or not,” Allsop mentioned.

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