Yes, the Russian campaign efforts were effective

Published December 18, 2018 9:31pm ET



My colleague Eddie Scarry today thought there was much ado about nothing regarding Russian interference in the 2016 election. He’s wrong.

Scarry argues that two new reports from the Senate Intelligence Committee “never prove that a single vote was changed by the campaign, which did nothing more than repeat the stale slogans of political groups on both the Left (‘Black Lives Matter,’ for example) and the Right (like the NRA),” and that “the reports rely instead on specious numbers of the campaign’s ‘reach’ and vague but impressive descriptions of the ‘meaningful influence’ that it achieved.”

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