Labor activists’ Kamala Harris campaign finds 43% of Americans fear British election interference, poll shows

Nearly half of US voters believe Britain is ‘interfering’ in their elections after Labor Party activists volunteered to campaign for Kamala Harris.

According to people close to the former president, the finding threatens to “poison” the transatlantic relationship for the next four years if Donald Trump retakes the White House.

In a comprehensive final national poll by DailyMail.com/JL Partners before election day, voters were asked whether the development amounted to election interference.

Of the 1,000 respondents, 43 percent said it was election interference, while 28 percent said it was not, and 29 percent were unsure.

Both Republicans and Democrats were among those polled for the poll, which showed Trump with a three-point national lead over Harris.

The result reflects the anger with which some Trump campaign insiders have reacted to the British move.

This week, Eric Trump, the former president’s son, told DailyMail.com that “I’m bored as an American citizen.”

He added: “It poisons a relationship when the election goes the other way.

‘How in the world does that help relations between Britain and the US? It’s so counterintuitive to me. I think a lot of people would find that quite disappointing.”

The Trump campaign has filed a complaint in Washington DC with the Federal Election Commission, which oversees US elections.

It called for an investigation into whether Labor had made illegal contributions to the Harris campaign.

The complaint stated: “I am writing on behalf of Donald J. Trump on behalf of President 2024, Inc. to request an immediate investigation into blatant foreign interference in the 2024 presidential election in the form of apparently illegal foreign contributions.”

It quoted a LinkedIn post from Sofia Patel, the Labor Party’s chief of operations.

The message, which has since been deleted, said: ‘I have almost 100 Labor Party staff (current and former) heading to the US in the coming weeks, heading to North Carolina, Nevada, Pennsylvania and Virginia.

“I have ten spots available for anyone who wants to go to the battleground state of North Carolina – we will get you housing.”

Susie Wiles, Trump’s de facto campaign manager, was particularly scathing in her response, describing Labor as a “far-left” political party that has “inspired Kamala’s dangerously liberal policies.”

She said, “Americans will once again reject the big government oppression we rejected in 1776.”

Despite the hurricane force, Starmer has denied that it will damage his relations with Trump if the Republican becomes president again.

The Prime Minister has insisted that Labor activists ‘do it in their spare time’ and ‘I think stay with other volunteers there’.

British political activists have been traveling to the US for a long time in the run-up to the election, with those from the Labor Party typically supporting the Democrats and the Conservatives traditionally backing the Republicans.

But with the US election set to be one of the closest in history, any perception of an ally wanting to put its thumb on the scale will inevitably not sit well with Trump.

Officials have also confirmed that senior Labor advisers have gone to the US in recent months to meet with Democratic strategists.

They discussed Starmer’s landslide victory in the British elections in July and how Labor successfully reclaimed former industrial areas that had abandoned them.

Election law allows foreigners to volunteer for U.S. political campaigns, but they cannot make financial contributions.

The question of whether the British volunteers broke electoral law will depend on whether Labor has covered their costs.

Democrat Bernie Sanders’ campaign was previously fined by the FEC after the Australian Labor Party paid its volunteers to travel to the US and support him.