DeSantis' claim that protecting Ukraine isn't in the 'vital' interest of the U.S. highlights a remarkable divide in the GOP over foreign policy — pitting its top two presidential candidates against the party's more hawkish establishment.
Ron DeSantis' claim that protecting Ukraine isn't in the "vital" interest of the U.S.
It provides an opening for a third candidate — perhaps former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, former Vice President Mike Pence, or former CIA Director Mike Pompeo — to win support among traditional Republican hawks and the GOP's donor class, which is more attuned to foreign policy than its voters. “While the U.S. has many vital national interests — securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness with our military, achieving energy security and independence, and checking the economic, cultural and military power of the Chinese Communist Party — becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between Ukraine and Russia is not one of them,” DeSantis said in his statement, which Carlson read on the air.late Monday night by calling him a flip-flopper.
"Whatever DeSantis needs to be that day to appear more Trump-like, he becomes. But voters pay attention to these things," said Trump spokesperson Jason Miller.
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