Asked if a U.S. president asking a foreign government to investigate the family of his American political rival is an abuse of power, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) told the National Review: “In general terms, American elections should be for Americans. And the idea that we would have foreign nation-states coming into the American electoral process, or the information surrounding an election, is really, really bad.”
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