Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump dances for his supporters after a rally at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina, October 21, 2024
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Donald Trump’s campaign has accused British Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labor Party of “blatant foreign interference” in the US presidential election after volunteers traveled to the US to help Kamala Harris campaign.
The campaign has filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission in Washington, calling for an immediate investigation into what it calls “manifestly illegal donations from foreign nationals to the British Labor Party and accepted by the Harris campaign for president.”
The complaint cites media reports and a now-deleted LinkedIn post by Sofia Patel, the UK Labor Party’s director of operations, who wrote that “nearly 100” current and former Labor staff would be working in the coming weeks. He traveled to the United States to help elect Harris, the Democratic vice president.
“Those looking for foreign interference in our elections need look no further than LinkedIn posts,” the complaint states. “Interference occurs in plain sight.”
The center-left Labor Party, which considers the US Democratic Party a sister party, came to power in July. Starmer has since sought to establish contact with Trump, meeting him at his Trump Tower during a visit to New York in September.
Starmer told reporters on the flight to Samoa that he did not expect the complaint to cause tensions with Trump if he wins the election on November 5, adding that Labor volunteers attended nearly every meeting. U.S. election.
“They do it in their spare time, they do it as volunteers, I think they do it with other volunteers there,” he said.
“That’s what they did in previous elections, that’s what they did in this election, and it’s very simple.”
