Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to “stop commenting on the fairness, integrity and legitimacy of foreign elections, a major shift away from a decadeslong practice of promoting democratic elections abroad,” the Wall Street Journal reports.
“The aim, at least in part, is to signal the U.S. is less interested in pressuring foreign governments to make internal reforms, such as allowing competitive elections, that has been a hallmark of U.S. foreign policy under both parties since the Cold War.”
