comments that president trump made. they heard the comments that rick desantis made as well. one of the things that volodymyr zelenskyy said is, look, when ukraine was invaded, president biden stepped up. that support is ongoing, and of course he has some serious concerns in light of the fact that that support could change in the future. it s a big concern for the ukrainians also because right now, they are pretty much fully dependent on supplies of western weapons. they re not only cautious and concerned about losing supplies of weapons from the u.s., but that the entire support for ukraine could collapse if the u.s. changes its point of view on all this. one thing, for instance, the germans agreed to give main battle tanks to ukraine, and they only did so because the u.s. says it would give abrams main battle tanks as well. the ukrainians are saying they are ready for their counteroffensive. they say it could take a very long time. they also understand that this war could take a very
there are not 60 votes for federal bans at probably six weeks. but, you know, jake rightfully pressed her and said, you re a candidate. you re running for president. what is your position? where do you stand? she still wouldn t go there. that is going to be an issue for her in this primary because these first of all, evangelical voters are a huge chunk of the republican party right now. and the leaders of these groups are really pushing for a number. they want to hear a commitment. and she did not give that. that s all true, and there s so many policy questions and answers to dissect on a whole host of issues. but one thing that really struck me was how folksy she was and how personal she got when she answered a lot of these issues. when she answered about abortion saying, i m pro life. and for many reasons, one of them was that i had trouble getting pregnant. and she talked about other issues, whether it was i know she s talked about this before, but on the stage.
the bar constantly gets lifted, and people start drilling down on your answers, and the things that worked tonight for her will not work a month or two months from now or on a debate stage. so she s got to decide where she s going to plant her feet even if at times it means saying, no, i don t think six weeks is appropriate or, no, i don t you know, i don t think you win this by trying to finesse your way through the process. i don t think that s going to work. one of the things she did i think that came from being out on the campaign trail is taking big policy issues and making them relatable. she took ukraine. there s been a lot of conversation about should we have continued support for ukraine? a lot of people say there needs to be certainly more transparency. she took the policy issue and made it personal in terms of this is about freedom. this is about freedom in the world and if russia succeeds just remind people what she
did extraordinarily well. if we re comparing it to the town hall of the former president from last week, we re talking about quite a different tone. a high energy event tonight versus a low energy event a high energy event tonight versus a low energy event the other night. let s not forget she checks a number of conservative boxes. she talked a lot about the fiscal issues that we talked about, both the republicans and democrats are responsible for out of control spending, for debts and deficits in washington. and those are important conversations that need to be had and things she talked about what she was governor. some of the things that i hope she continues to talk about in iowa and new hampshire and south carolina are the accomplishments that she had as governor. the accomplishments she had as ambassador, and i think she ll continue to do that because as you saw tonight and as people have seen in the more than two dozen events she s done in iowa, she s good. she s tailor
and i think there are a number of republican voters who may disagree with governor haley and say, you know, governor desantis knows the people of his state better than anyone else does, and so they know what fights they want him to pick and what fights are appropriate for him to pick. and so i don t know i don t know how this fight or how this fight ends up in this primary. i do think it s a more complicated one than we say, and i don t know and i think that bakari is probably right, that in the general election she was able to in that answer kind of check two boxes. when you prepare for town halls, you figure out what you want to check off. she checked off, one, being a major punch in the face to ron desantis. but she also checked the box to what are republicans who are woke, what do they want to hear because she also followed that up with, you know, we don t need to be having concerns about what many republicans fear or have concerns with is a lot of this transgender men in s