Putin says Russia backs Kamala Harris in US election

Russian President Vladimir Putin | Alexei Babushkin / POOL / AFP

VLADIVOSTOK, Russia—Russia wants Kamala Harris to win the US presidential election, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday in an apparently ironic comment, citing her “infectious” laugh as a reason to prefer her over Donald Trump.

Putin was speaking a day after the US Justice Department charged two Russian media executives over an alleged illegal scheme to influence the November election with pro-Russian propaganda.

Asked how he viewed the election now, Putin told an economic forum in Russia’s far east that it was the choice of the American people.

But he then added that as President Joe Biden had recommended his supporters to back Harris, “we will do the same, we will support her.”

“She laughs so expressively and infectiously that it means that everything is fine with her,” Putin said.

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