Ukraine’s Zelenskyy appeals to U.S. for continued aid against Russia’s invasion

Laura Barrón-López:

Well, the leading Republican presidential contenders are at odds with President Biden on this, Geoff.

Former President Donald Trump, who is leading the field by double digits, has questioned additional funding to Ukraine, has said that he alone would be able to fix this problem if he were back in the White House and hash out a deal between President Zelenskyy and President — Russian President Putin.

But, again, there’s no evidence that he would be able to do that. And, also, the contenders right behind him, Ron DeSantis of Florida and Vivek Ramaswamy, are in line with Trump on this, questioning and again saying that saying that they don’t think that more aid should be sent to Ukraine right now.

And that is where you’re seeing a lot of those hard-line House Republicans draw their encouragement from, from these leading Republican contenders as they try to hold the line and say that they don’t want to support Ukraine anymore.

But President Biden this week, and especially today, as he met with President Zelenskyy, has really tried to hammer home the point that the United States, despite what leading Republicans on the presidential field and despite what is being said among the House Republican Conference, that the United States is behind Ukraine and that all countries, all democracies across the world have a stake in this war that’s ongoing right now.