Last month, House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) announced that he was calling on Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy to remove Ambassador Oksana Markarova from her post because she took part in arranging an event that promoted Vice President Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election.
As Townhall covered, in a letter, Johnson said, “Ukrainians have tried to avoid being ‘captured by American domestic politics,’ and ‘influencing the choices of the American people’ ahead of the November election.”
“Clearly that objective was abandoned this week when Ambassador Markarova organized an event in which you toured an American manufacturing site,” Johnson said, adding that the site was in a battleground state and was “led by a top political surrogate for Kamala Harris.”
“The tour was clearly a partisan campaign event designed to help Democrats and is clearly election interference. This shortsighted and intentionally political move has caused Republicans to lose trust in Ambassador Markarova’s ability to fairly and effectively serve as a diplomat in this country,” he added.
This week, former President Donald Trump filed a complaint with the Federal Election Commission over the United Kingdom’s Labour Party’s “election interference.” According to The Hill, the Labour Party has shown support for Harris in the 2024 election (via The Hill):
The group offered to send 100 current and former Labour Party staff to battleground states such as Pennsylvania and North Carolina to campaign for Harris, the complaint states.
It also cites a LinkedIn post from Sofia Patel, Labour’s head of operations, in which she said she would sort out the volunteers’ housing.
“In two weeks, Americans will once again reject the oppression of big government that we rejected in 1776,” Susie Wiles, co-manager of the Trump campaign, said in a statement to the outlet.
“The flailing Harris-Walz campaign is seeking foreign influence to boost its radical message — because they know they can’t win the American people,” Wiles added. “President Trump will return strength to the White House and put America, and our people, first. The Harris campaign’s acceptance and use of this illegal foreign assistance is just another feeble attempt in a long line of anti-American election interference.”
On Wednesday, UK Prime Minister and Labour Party leader Keir Starmer responded to Trump’s FEC complaint.
“The Labour party … volunteers, have gone over pretty much every election. They’re doing it in their spare time, they’re doing it as volunteers, they’re staying I think with other volunteers over there,” Starmer said, according to Forbes.
“That’s what they’ve done in previous elections, that’s what they’re doing in this election and that’s really straightforward,” he added.
Starmer insisted he had a “good relationship” with Trump, the report added.
“We had a good, constructive discussion and, of course as prime minister of the United Kingdom I will work with whoever the American people return as their president in their elections which are very close now,” he asserted.