Participants from around the world attend the opening session of the Halifax International Security Forum in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. | Andrew Vaughan/The Canadian Press via AP
By Andrew Desiderio and Connor O’Brien
11/20/2022 11:03 AM EST
HALIFAX, Nova Scotia — A bipartisan group of U.S. lawmakers traveling abroad for the first time since the midterms cheered the broad repudiation of candidates who denied the outcome of the 2020 election, arguing those results shore up American democracy and should reassure foreign allies.
Amid concerns about the fragility of democracy both at home and abroad, members of the congressional delegation at the annual Halifax International Security Forum — in public and in private meetings with their foreign counterparts — highlighted the resounding defeat of candidates in battleground states who backed Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
“As we look at the battle for Ukraine and support for democracies around the world, it’s really important for the United States to be able to model the aspects of democracy that we’re talking to other countries about,” said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), who led the delegation here, in an interview. “So many of those people who were the most extreme were defeated. That was a good sign. It was a good sign for democracy.”
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