Are the 2018 Midterms Under Continuing Threat of Foreign Meddling?

Jim Geraghty

Yesterday, I wrote that there’s no reason to believe that Russia, and its myriad intelligence agencies, will continue to meddle in American politics in a way that benefits the Republican party. The natural inclinations of the GOP and the Democratic party make Donald Trump a Russophile rarity, and in future elections, Moscow will probably conclude that a Democratic candidate’s victory would be better for its interests. Thus, Republicans have a strong incentive to push for cybersecurity and other anti-meddling measures, lest they find themselves on the losing end of foreign-intelligence plots to sway elections.

Garrett Graff, a longtime writer on national-security issues, concurs and points out that a lot of hostile states watched what Russia did and are probably planning to emulate it:

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