U.S. intelligence officials concluded that no foreign adversary successfully interfered in the 2024 presidential election, according to a classified assessment completed last year. The report, described by multiple anonymous sources, found that Russia, Iran, and China each conducted influence campaigns to varying degrees, with Moscow's efforts being the most significant. Russia sought to boost then-former President Donald Trump and undercut his Democratic rival, Vice President Kamala Harris.
The findings are consistent with similar intelligence reviews after the 2020 and 2022 elections. Those studies showed that foreign actors had largely abandoned technically challenging attempts to hack election infrastructure or tamper with votes, instead favoring influence campaigns. The latest assessment also noted that Beijing targeted specific races, and the intelligence community observed a wider variety of actors, including Hezbollah, engaging in influence operations, partly due to the proliferation of AI tools.
The report was supposed to be declassified last year, and a public version is expected soon. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence did not respond to a request for comment. Meanwhile, the intelligence community has begun stepping up election security efforts ahead of the upcoming midterms, with officials briefing congressional committees on current threats. Rep. Jim Himes, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence panel, stated that no adversary has interfered or attempted to interfere with election infrastructure or vote counting, and he sees no evidence of deviation from that finding.