{"id":2409,"date":"2018-03-20T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/democrats.org\/blog\/2018\/03\/20\/trump-wont-dictate-how-putin-runs-his-election-but-happy-to-elsewhere\/"},"modified":"2018-03-20T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T20:00:00","slug":"trump-wont-dictate-how-putin-runs-his-election-but-happy-to-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-wont-dictate-how-putin-runs-his-election-but-happy-to-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Won\u2019t Dictate How Putin Runs his Election, But Happy to Elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

The White House said it’s not their place to decide how Putin’s election is run, but when it comes to un-Democratic elections in other parts of the world, they are just fine responding.<\/p>\n

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TODAY:<\/u><\/strong> Sarah Sanders said it was not the White House’s place to say whether Russia’s elections were free and fair. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Sarah Sanders: “Look, in terms of the election there, we’re focused on our elections. We don't get to dictate how other countries operate<\/strong>. What we do know is that Putin has been elected in their country, and that's not something that we can dictate to them how they operate.”<\/p>\n

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LAST MONTH:<\/u><\/strong> The White House cut U.S. aid to Cambodia due to concern over un-Democratic elections. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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Politico<\/a>: “The Trump administration said Tuesday it's cutting U.S. aid spending in Cambodia, citing ‘deep concern’ over rollbacks in democracy in the Southeast Asian nation.”<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The White House said it’s not their place to decide how Putin’s election is run, but when it comes to un-Democratic elections in other parts of the world, they are just fine responding.   TODAY: Sarah Sanders said it was not the White House’s place to say whether Russia’s elections were free and fair.   <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press-release"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nTrump Won\u2019t Dictate How Putin Runs his Election, But Happy to Elsewhere - Democrats<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-wont-dictate-how-putin-runs-his-election-but-happy-to-elsewhere\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Democrats\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2018-03-20T20:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-wont-dictate-how-putin-runs-his-election-but-happy-to-elsewhere\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/democrats.org\/news\/trump-wont-dictate-how-putin-runs-his-election-but-happy-to-elsewhere\/\",\"name\":\"Trump Won\u2019t Dictate How Putin Runs his Election, But Happy to Elsewhere - 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