{"id":2360131,"date":"2024-10-27T10:10:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-27T14:10:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-russian-election-interference-is-bad-but-not-worth-a-response-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-27T10:11:38","modified_gmt":"2024-10-27T14:11:38","slug":"vance-says-russian-election-interference-is-bad-but-not-worth-a-response-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vance-says-russian-election-interference-is-bad-but-not-worth-a-response-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Vance says Russian election interference is &#8216;bad&#8217; but not worth a response &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvance-says-russian-election-interference-is-bad-but-not-worth-a-response-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2360131&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>In a recent interview, Republican Senator J.D. \u2063Vance of Ohio addressed concerns over a Russia-funded video suggesting election interference in Pennsylvania, which depicts a person \u2064tearing up ballots. While Vance criticized \u2063the video as &#8220;bad,&#8221; he refrained from advocating for direct penalties against Russia, emphasizing that the U.S. should prioritize its own national interests rather than retaliating over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/once-a-leading-candidate-cooper-says-walz-outstanding-running-mate-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Once a leading candidate, Cooper says Walz \u2018outstanding running mate\u2019 - Washington Examiner\">social media actions<\/a>. He acknowledged that many countries, including\u200c Russia, attempt to manipulate U.S. voters, \u200dbut\u200b contended that the governmental response should focus on larger geopolitical\u2062 issues, such as halting Iranian \u2063aggression.<\/p>\n<p>When asked if \u200delection interference constitutes\u200d a \u2063&#8221;red line,&#8221; Vance conceded it is problematic\u2062 but questioned the necessity of escalating\u200c to a military response merely due to propaganda. He critiqued the effectiveness of previously imposed sanctions against Russia, suggesting they have not significantly hindered\u200c the Russian economy as promised. Instead, Vance recommended that Americans be cautious about trusting information on social media and called for a measured approach to addressing misinformation. Meanwhile, U.S. intelligence agencies have labeled the disputed video as a fabricated tool of Russian disinformation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Vance says Russian election interference is &lsquo;bad&rsquo; but not worth a response<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1846020\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>Republican vice presidential nominee Sen. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/jd-vance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">J.D. Vance<\/a> (R-OH) condemned a Russia-funded video circulating online that purports to capture a person tearing up ballots in the critical battleground state of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/pennsylvania\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Pennsylvania<\/a>, but declined to say that penalties should be imposed on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/moscow\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Moscow<\/a> for the election interference.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>&ldquo;A lot of countries are going to try to manipulate our voters,&rdquo; Vance told CBS&rsquo;s <em>Face the Nation<\/em>. &ldquo;I think the bigger question is, what is in our best interest vis-&agrave;-vis Russia, not what price Russia should pay for putting out social media videos. And I think what&rsquo;s in our best interest vis-a-vis Russia is, in particular, for them to stop supporting the Iranians as the Iranians engage in acts of aggression.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Regarding <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/europe\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Europe<\/a>, Vance contended it was &ldquo;important for the killing to stop in Russia and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/ukraine\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Ukraine<\/a>,&rdquo; but that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/section\/policy\/foreign-policy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">foreign policy<\/a> should be dictated by the United States&rsquo;s best interests and not by another country &ldquo;spreading videos on social media.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>When pressed by anchor Margaret Brennan on whether election interference is crossing a red line, Vance conceded it is &ldquo;bad.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;But social media posts and social media videos, Margaret, you want us to go to war because the Russians made a ridiculous video or paid for it?&rdquo; the senator said. &ldquo;Everything that we&rsquo;ve tried, a lot of the sanctions that we&rsquo;ve tried, they&rsquo;ve gone off like a wet firecracker.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We promised at the beginning of the Russia-Ukraine war that we would engage in financial nuclear war against the Russians,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/joe-biden\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Biden<\/a> administration, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Harris<\/a> administration officials talked about how our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/sanctions\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">sanctions<\/a> would cripple their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/economy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">economy<\/a>. They didn&rsquo;t. And so we have to be realistic about what America can accomplish, compare it against our national interests and just be smart about this.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Instead, Vance argued the federal government and public officials and figures should &ldquo;encourage our fellow Americans to be careful&rdquo; and not to &ldquo;trust everything that you see on social media.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Of course, we should push back where appropriate,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But that&rsquo;s the big question is, what is an appropriate response to a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">country making social media videos<\/a>? I&rsquo;m not going to make a commitment to that sitting right here.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/fbi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">FBI<\/a>, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency denounced the video shortly after it was reported last Thursday, alleging it was &ldquo;manufactured and amplified&rdquo; by Russian actors. It depicts a black election official in Bucks County destroying Trump absentee or mailed in ballots, but the Bucks County Board of Elections has said the envelopes &ldquo;are clearly not authentic materials belonging to or distributed by&rdquo; the board.<\/p>\n<p>In the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/not-a-fan-trump-blasts-meghan-markle-for-royal-family-racism-claims-mocks-her-rumored-presidential-run\/\" title=\"\u2018Not A Fan\u2019: Trump Blasts Meghan Markle For Royal Family Racism Claims, Mocks Her Rumored Presidential Run\">wide-ranging interview<\/a>, Vance also expressed confidence that he and former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Donald Trump<\/a> will win Pennsylvania this election, but remained open to the possibility of challenging the outcome &ldquo;if something comes up.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With about a week until the polls close, Vance similarly appeared on NBC&rsquo;s Meet the Press with Kristen Welker defending Trump&rsquo;s &ldquo;enemy from within&rdquo; comment and, again, remarking on foreign policy toward Russia and whether the U.S. would continue to be a member of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/nato\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">NATO<\/a> under Trump.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Of course, we&rsquo;re going to honor our NATO commitments,&rdquo; he said. &ldquo;But I think it&rsquo;s important, Kristen, that we recognize that NATO is not just a welfare client. It should be a real alliance. And this is a strong difference between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Donald Trump wants NATO to be strong. He wants us to remain in NATO. But he also wants NATO countries to actually carry their share of the defense burden.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1846020\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1846020\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vance calls Russian election interference &#8216;bad&#8217; but not actionable<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2652,"featured_media":2360132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/jd-vance-rally-arizona.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[32171,43796,15469,32076],"class_list":["post-2360131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-political-commentary","tag-russian-election-interference","tag-vance","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/jd-vance-rally-arizona.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360131"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360131\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}