{"id":1999843,"date":"2023-08-14T10:31:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:31:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-says-trumps-messaging-sparked-challenges-for-gop-support-of-ukraine\/"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:32:31","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T14:32:31","slug":"mitch-mcconnell-says-trumps-messaging-sparked-challenges-for-gop-support-of-ukraine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-says-trumps-messaging-sparked-challenges-for-gop-support-of-ukraine\/","title":{"rendered":"McConnell: Trump&#8217;s messaging caused GOP&#8217;s Ukraine support challenges."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmitch-mcconnell-says-trumps-messaging-sparked-challenges-for-gop-support-of-ukraine%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1999843&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Former \u2064President Donald Trump&#8217;s Impact on Republican Support for Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>Former \u2062President Donald Trump&#8217;s\u200d drift toward isolationism created challenges for\u2062 Republican leaders such as Senate\u200b Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), who considers the war in\u200c Ukraine the &#8220;most\u200c important thing going\u200b on internationally.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;That\u2019s a reflection of the challenges at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawsuit-universities-are-helping-foreign-students-who-might-be-national-security-threats-illegally-enter-the-united-states\/\" title=\"Lawsuit: Universities Are Helping Foreign Students Who Might Be National Security Threats Illegally Enter The United States\">base created<\/a> by the former president\u2019s reluctance to endorse this \u200bimportant mission,&#8221; McConnell said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<h3>Trump&#8217;s Messaging and Republican Senators<\/h3>\n<p>The top Senate Republican said Trump&#8217;s messaging \u200c\u2014\u2064 threatening to pull \u2064the United States out of NATO, a relationship with Russian President \u2063Vladimir Putin, and his comments during his 2024 campaign \u2014 has pushed newly elected Republican senators, especially, to avoid Ukraine funding. Of the 11 \u2063Senate Republicans who opposed a Ukrainian aid bill last year, seven were first elected to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mike-kelly-same-people-criticizing-trump-peddled-russia-collusion-hoax\/\" title=\"Mike Kelly: Same People Criticizing Trump Peddled Russia Collusion Hoax\">upper chamber<\/a> in\u2064 2018\u200b or later.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is the defining, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-cdc-releases-mask-wearing-psa-with-harry-potter-wonder-woman-pennywise\/\" title=\"WATCH: CDC Releases Mask-Wearing PSA With Harry Potter, Wonder Woman, Pennywise\">final battle<\/a> of his career, keeping the party away \u2064from this new\u200b flirtation\u200c with \u200disolationism,&#8221; said Scott\u2064 Jennings, adviser\u2064 to McConnell.<\/p>\n<h3>McConnell&#8217;s Efforts to \u200bSupport Ukraine<\/h3>\n<p>During and after Trump&#8217;s presidency, McConnell made \u200cit\u200c his public and\u200c private mission to show the world that\u200b Republican support of Ukraine&#8217;s war against Russia has not\u2064 wavered. \u2062He urged Finland to join NATO and changed his biennial\u200d trip, usually to the\u200c Middle East,\u2062 and brought freshman\u2064 Senate Republicans\u2064 to the Munich Security Conference. McConnell, as\u2063 well as Sen. Susan Collins \u200c(R-ME) and \u200dpossible successors Sens. John Barrasso (R-WY)\u200b and John Cornyn (R-TX), visited Kyiv and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.<\/p>\n<p>McConnell&#8217;s age and health are also factors in his quest for support for Ukraine. He recently froze \u2064during\u2063 a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gov-whitmer-media-caught-in-another-lie-anarchist-arrested-for-plot-to-kidnap-and-kill-whitmer-hates-president-trump-trump-is-a-tyrant-video\/\" title=\"Gov. Whitmer, Media Caught in Another Lie - Anarchist Arrested For Plot to Kidnap and Kill Whitmer Hates President Trump, 'Trump is a Tyrant' (VIDEO)\">press conference<\/a> at \u2062the \u200dCapitol for about 20 seconds before staff escorted him away.\u2062 At\u200b 81, he is the longest-serving Senate leader, and he is committing to making Ukraine a priority for congressional\u200d Republicans.<\/p>\n<h3>McConnell&#8217;s Goal and the 2024 Election<\/h3>\n<p>McConnell&#8217;s goal, it appears, is to solidify as much support as possible before the 2024 election, in which \u2062Trump is polling as the front-runner in\u200b the GOP \u2063primary to take back the White House from President Joe Biden possibly. If Trump wins, it will be a contest of power between \u2062the former president, McConnell,\u200b and House Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), who is embattled\u200d by his fellow\u200c conservative members who \u2063are\u2062 hard-liners on\u2062 spending.<\/p>\n<p>However, he\u2063 brushed off the level\u200c of impact that Trump\u2063 or Gov. Ron DeSantis\u200c (R-FL),\u200d who referred to \u200cthe war in\u2064 Ukraine as a &#8220;territorial dispute,&#8221;\u2063 could have on Republican support for\u2062 the war, saying Ukraine has \u200ba strong base among the congressional GOP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No matter who\u2019s in the White House, \u2063it\u2019s not helpful\u200b if \u2064you have a president who\u2019s not in favor of this, but in order to enact a policy, you have to deal with\u2063 a \u200blot of \u200bpeople,&#8221; he \u2063said. &#8220;And\u200c I do think that the congressional leaders \u2062on defense \u200cand\u200b foreign policy think\u200c that\u2063 this is important.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h3>McConnell&#8217;s Arguments for Support<\/h3>\n<p>McConnell has also pointed to\u2062 funding from U.S. allies such as South Korea and Japan \u2063to \u200bUkraine, saying that the nations view the Ukraine-Russia war \u2064as \u2062&#8221;very relevant to the Chinese threat in their \u2063neighborhood.&#8221; He also has played on\u200c the strength of \u200dUkraine battling against one of the world&#8217;s superpowers.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;This is not \u2062just \u200csome altruistic project,&#8221; \u200bMcConnell said\u200c about American\u200d support for \u2062the \u2063war,\u200c adding that the\u200d Ukrainians &#8220;are \u2063massively degrading the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mitch-mcconnell-says-trumps-messaging-sparked-challenges-for-gop-support-of-ukraine\/\" title=\"McConnell: Trump's messaging caused GOP's Ukraine support challenges.\">future offensive military capabilities<\/a> \u200dof one of the greatest self-appointed foes of international peace and stability.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">CLICK HERE TO READ\u2063 MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Donald Trump&#8217;s isolationist approach posed challenges for Republican leaders like Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). McConnell, who views the Ukraine conflict as a top global concern, stated in a Politico interview that it&#8217;s no surprise Republican lawmakers are hesitant to deploy troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1999844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}