Security News > 2020 > July > Democrats 'Gravely Concerned' Over Foreign Interference in US Vote
Senior US Democrats have demanded an urgent intelligence briefing for lawmakers from the FBI over what they said was a concerted foreign campaign to spread disinformation to interfere in November's elections.
"We are gravely concerned... that Congress appears to be the target of a concerted foreign interference campaign, which seeks to launder and amplify disinformation in order to influence congressional activity, public debate, and the presidential election," they said.
Trump has repeatedly denied it, and has downplayed warnings of interference from abroad in the next elections.
In February, a senior FBI official monitoring foreign influence, David Porter, warned that Russia was again interfering, seeking to exacerbate divisions and sow distrust in the US election system.
"Russia wants to watch us tear ourselves apart, while it seems that China would rather manage our gradual economic decline over the course of generations," he told a conference on election security.