"Generally speaking, the outcome of this election makes no difference to us," Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov said in an interview with Newsweek earlier this month. But despite what Russian officials claim, the country's state media tells a very different story. "Russia absolutely cares a great deal about who wins the US election," Ann Marie Dailey, a policy researcher at RAND, told Business Insider.
Russian state TV has also played compilations of some of Harris' worst moments and made frequent sexist and racist comments about the presidential candidate. "Kamala with the nuclear button is worse than a monkey with a grenade," Andrei Sidorov, the dean of the global politics department at Moscow State University, said on the Russian state-run Rossiya 1 channel, according to Politico.
By comparison, Russian state TV's main Channel One news program often portrays Trump and running mate, JD Vance, as confident and intelligent, Reuters said. The discrepancy between how broadcasters view the two candidates was particularly clear after last month's presidential debate, which was widely regarded as a clear win for Harris.
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