ukraine was a territorial dispute, not in america s vital interests. desantis um, it gave another interview in which he declared putin a war criminal and said that putin should be held accountable. what did you make of that? i think he s listening to the criticism. i mean, his position is not a mainstream position in america. today republicans and democrats in my state still support ukraine because they do believe there s a connection between fighting. the russians and protecting ukrainian democracy and protecting our own democracy . so it could be that desantis realized he got way out of step with where the broad american electorate is, and he s you know, trying to make up the difference. um the problem is that it s not just ron desantis . it s not just donald trump. there s a growing number of republicans in the house of representatives who are saying the same things and ultimately, at some point this year, we re going to have to authorize additional assistance.
globalists in the deep state, the pentagon, the state department, and the national security industrial complex. joining us now is a washington correspondent and founding partner at puck news. julia, it s great to see you. hi, good to see you, alex. so my question is how the evolution of the gop on the fight in ukraine, there was a moment and it was a short-lived moment where there seemed to be some version of bipartisan support for this at the outset of all of it. and i wonder what you think the catalyst for the chilled enthusiasm, which is putting it mildly inside the gop, what the catalyst was for that. is it the length of the war? is it the fact biden seems to be somewhat successful in his strategy? is it just isolationism is an inevitable end point of the modern day gop? what do you attribute it to? i think it s important to point out that i think it s still a mainstream position in
is it the length of the war? is that the fact that biden seems to be somewhat successful at his strategy? is it just isolationism? it s an inevitable and point of the modern-day gop? what do you attribute it to? i think it s important to point out that i think it s still a mainstream position in the republican party to support ukraine. i was just at the munich security conference. and there were a lot of and house numbers members from the house republican side of the aisle, they are pledging their support, some of them pretty high-ranking members pledging to, quote, die on this hill because it reminded them of the struggle of world war ii. that it was such a clean cut battle, good versus evil. as for what is happening on the far-right wing of the party, i think it has several explanations. one is the kind of
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and we believe strongly in the values around what it means to say that you re pro-life. but at the same time, we believe in the exceptions of rape, incest, and life of the mother. doctor oz is exposing those views, which i think are actually pretty mainstream in pennsylvania. the extremists u.s. fetterman, who wants no limits on abortion whatsoever at any moment. and i think what fetterman, or what oz rather has to do, is get back on offense on this debate and not allow himself to be defined. i think that is what he s trying to do here. and he s gonna have to keep at it. because i think the democrats are gonna be very dishonest about was position is. but a mainstream position, for the exceptions on pro-life, i understand the political reality. there is not gonna be any federal ban. let s face it, there is not 60 votes for anything the united states senate. that will serve was very well if he stays on. so paul, listen, it s not a one 80, but the shift. what s your response? yeah, th