[Washington, 13th Archyde.com]–The US Republican Party’s “civil war” is intensifying following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Primary candidates aiming to run for the November parliamentary midterm elections are fighting over the fact that their opponents have praised Russian President Vladimir Putin in the past.
Republican primaries in both the House and Senate are on the defensive in at least three states. Mr Putin was noted as “intelligent”, Ukraine’s President Zelensky was “villainous”, and the statement that Ukraine was not worth protecting was noted and criticized as Americans strongly supported Ukraine and its president. Because there is.
Pat McCrawley, who will be in the Republican preliminaries on May 17 in North Carolina, hit his rival candidate Ted Budd in his first television commercial, with the support of former President Trump.
“Now that the Ukrainian people are bleeding and dying …, Congressman Bad is defending the murderers of these people,” McCulley said in a commercial. In the meantime, Bad said in a television interview that Putin was a “very intelligent actor” and that the invasion had “strategic reasons.”
The commercial also criticized Mr. Bad for voting “friendly” to Russia in parliament, contrary to what Mr Putin described as “evil.”
Mr. Bad’s election camp said, “Ted Bad has shown some sort of calm analysis of the crisis abroad, which seems to be a US Senator. Now it’s not an empty catchphrase that hits the opponent, but strength and truth. I understand that it is a serious time when is needed, “he said, dismissing Mr. McCulley’s commercial.
Until Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, some Republicans were relieved to keep pace with Mr. Trump, praising Mr. Putin as a strong leader and blaming the U.S. government’s policy toward Russia. ..
Even following the invasion, Trump supporters Marjorie Taylor Green and Paul Goser attended a meeting of white patriots who cheered on the invasion and called Putin’s name.
The internal struggle between Mr Putin and Ukraine has deepened the pre-existing rift within the Republican Party. Republicans have divided over Mr. Trump’s false allegations that a major fraud was committed in the 2020 presidential election and a House investigation into the January attack on the Federal Capitol by Trump supporters. ..
Mr. Trump was criticized in an interview on February 22, saying that Putin’s actions once morest Ukraine were “genius” and “very astute.”
In North Carolina, Congressman Madison Cawthorn has also been attacked by the same Republican rivals for criticizing President Zelensky and Ukraine in the local public hall.
“Remember Zelensky is a villain. The Ukrainian government is incredibly rotten, incredibly evil and imposes a conscious ideology,” Kosorn said in a video broadcast on WRAL-TV in Raleigh, Tong. Don’t forget what you’ve done. “
“It’s puzzling that a member of Congress calls the Ukrainian president a villain!” Michelle Woodhouse, who challenges him in the Republican primary.
Archyde.com asked Mr. Corthorn’s office for comment, but did not respond.
In Utah, former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) official and independent senator candidate Evan McMullin attacks Republican senator Mike Lee. In an ad, he criticized the visit to Moscow in opposition to sanctions once morest Russia, “making our country weak and dangerous” in the midst of the Ukrainian crisis.
However, according to fact-checking site PolitiFact, the ad misunderstands whether Lee’s actions many years before the invasion of Ukraine are taken up. PolitiFact has determined the ad to be “almost false.”
Archyde.com asked Lee’s office for comment, but did not respond. McMarin’s election camp claimed to be responsible for , and Lee argued that he had repeatedly spoiled Putin.
(Reporter by David Morgan)
