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Ukraine dents 'America First' thinking
deep in the heart of Trump country
Mar 14
STEUBENVILLE, Ohio - Here in the middle
of former President Donald Trump's Midwest
base, in a state where a sense of economic
malaise lands hard on rural and working-
class voters, many Republicans see higher
gas prices as a small price to pay to help
defend Ukraine.
"I don't think we're doing enough," Mary
King, an unemployed caregiver, said of
President Joe Biden's ban on Russian oil
last week. She spoke while waiting for
GOP Senate candidate J.D. Vance to hold
a campaign event in this industrial city
along the Ohio River.
"Ask the public what they are willing
to sacrifice," King added. "I pray every
day to St. Nicholas to save the children
in Ukraine who are in danger."
"It's not going to cripple us," Bob
Heinly, a retired cardiac technician,
said of the higher gas prices likely to
result from the ban, speaking after
Vance finished a town hall forum there.
"I invest in things that are important
to me."
King and Heinly - among more than a
dozen Ohio Republicans interviewed about
the U.S. response to Russia's war against
Ukraine - described themselves as loyal
Trump voters. Their comments represent a
departure from the "America First" mindset
that helped Trump easily win the state
twice.
A Quinnipiac University survey released
last week found broad and bipartisan
support among Americans for an oil ban,
condemnation of Russian President
Vladimir Putin and favorable opinions
of Ukrainian President Volodymyr
Zelenskyy. On the right wing of the
Republican Party, however, there
remain influential voices pushing
alternate views about the Russian
invasion and the U.S. response. Fox
News host Tucker Carlson has indulged
in conspiracy theories sympathetic to
Putin. Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C.,
recently called Zelenskyy a "thug."
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/ukraine-dents-america-fir >st-thinking-deep-heart-trump-country-rcna19441
Tucker and Hannity should be hung by the neck back-to-back because they
are traitors and even trump says traitors must die.
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