Andrew Kerr
Investigative Reporter
February 12, 2020 4:01 PM ET
Foreign nationals volunteering for Sen. Bernie Sanders have sent thousands of texts and phone calls to American voters urging them to support his presidential bid.
A Facebook group called Australians Supporting Bernie Sanders recently published a guide in January instructing prospective foreign volunteers on how to phone bank for Sanders.
“Ready to do foreign campaign interference from Austria,†a user posted Wednesday in a Sanders-operated online chatroom.
Foreign nationals, under the direction of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders’s presidential campaign, have sent thousands of texts and phone calls urging American voters to support the democratic socialist in the Democratic primaries.
Since October 2019, a particularly devoted contingent of about 40 Australian volunteers have sent thousands of messages a day to American voters through a phone banking system operated by the Sanders campaign, according to a report by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
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