Analysis: Rarely has the Trump-era overhaul of the GOP been put in such stark relief as it was on Friday. This evangelical forum was not Pence’s audience, it was Carlson’s — in line with the outspoken base of the party as much as a religious movement.
. The exchange was torturous, with Pence trying to explain his own conversations with Christian leaders in Ukraine disputing Carlson’s premise, but Carlson repeatedly pressing his counternarrative.
The most telling example of where Pence stands in today’s GOP may have come when he offered what aides must have thought was a bona fide applause line. “A year and a half ago, Russia had the second most powerful military in the world,” he said. “Today, they have the second most powerful military in Ukraine.”The line was met with virtual silence, apparently to Pence’s surprise. All that was missing was a “To be clear, Pence wasn’t talking about sending Ukraine a bunch more money; he was talking about how Russia, an antagonistic foreign power whom very few Americans — Republicans included — view favorably, was struggling in its war of conquest.
The tone had been set by this point, of course. This evangelical forum was not the conservative Christian icon’s audience, it was Carlson’s — in line with the outspoken base of the party as much as a religious movement. There was no room for views on Ukraine that were actually where polls suggestIt’s not at all difficult to see the Family Leadership forum ultimately contributing to — or at least being indicative of — the demise of the conservative movement’s most evangelical-friendly candidate.
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