.HayesBrown: It hasn't been that long since Mike Pence had a front row seat to Donald Trump's attempt to extort Ukraine
that he was visiting because “America’s the leader of the free world” and that being there “steels my resolve to do my part, to continue to call for strong American support for our Ukrainian friends and allies.”
What once was a pretty boilerplate bit of hawkishness from a Republican candidate has become less of a selling point for GOP primary voters these days. Pence managed to highlight that shift in meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. It’s the second time the two men have met — but it. That it wasn’t undergirds how far Pence stands from former President Donald Trump when it comes to Ukraine and how much of the GOP Trump has taken along with him.
What once was a pretty boilerplate bit of hawkishness from a Republican candidate has become less of a selling point for GOP primary voters these days.that Ukraine, not Russia, interfered in the 2016 election. It became an obsession that eventually morphed into a shadow U.S. foreign policy spearheaded by his lawyer Rudy Giuliani, and it intersected with his fear of former Vice President Joe Biden as a challenger in 2020.
to open an investigation into the Bidens, withholding as leverage things like a White House visit for Zelenskyy and millions of dollars in much-needed military assistance that Congress had appropriated.
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