{"id":2010342,"date":"2023-08-24T02:28:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T06:28:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candidates-clash-over-ukraine-aid-at-gop-debate\/"},"modified":"2023-08-24T02:29:41","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T06:29:41","slug":"candidates-clash-over-ukraine-aid-at-gop-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candidates-clash-over-ukraine-aid-at-gop-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP debate sees candidates clash over Ukraine aid."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><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%2Fcandidates-clash-over-ukraine-aid-at-gop-debate%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=2010342&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>Republican Candidates Debate Funding for Ukraine<\/h2>\n<p>With the Biden administration poised to ask Congress\u200c for an additional $24 billion in aid to Ukraine, candidates\u200c on stage \u200cat the first \u200d2024 Republican presidential primary debate were asked if anyone would end support for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/white-house-releases-list-of-president-trumps-accomplishments-and-it-is-historic\/\" title=\"White House Releases List of President Trump\u2019s Accomplishments \u2013  And It Is Historic!\">increasing funding<\/a>\u200c to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-line-for-senior-job-at-state-sanders-aide-accuses-biden-of-illegal-military-action\/\" title=\"In Line For Senior Job at State, Sanders Aide Accuses Biden of Illegal Military Action\">war-torn country<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis \u2062and entrepreneur Vivek\u2064 Ramaswamy, who were positioned in the\u200b center of the eight candidates since they are second and third in polling behind former President Donald Trump, quickly responded.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. DeSantis said that \u200cAmerican support should be\u200c contingent on Europe pulling its weight.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h3>Related Stories<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/rich-men-from-north-of-richmond-sparks-gop-debate-on-bidenomics-and-economy-5479762\"><strong>&#8216;Rich Men From North of Richmond&#8217;\u200c Sparks GOP Debate \u2063on Bidenomics and Economy<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theepochtimes.com\/us\/at-gop-debate-2024-candidates-all-pro-life-but-differ-on-details-5479719\"><strong>Candidates Divided on National Abortion Ban at \u2062GOP Debate<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Mr. Ramaswamy said that he would not approve additional\u200c aid to Ukraine.<\/p>\n<div>\n<figure style=\"width:600px\" class=\"alignnone\"><figcaption>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (left) and entrepreneur and author Vivek Ramaswamy speak during the first Republican Presidential primary debate at the Fiserv Forum in Milwaukee, Wis., on Aug.\u2064 23, 2023. \u200d(BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cI would not, and I think that this is disastrous that we\u2064 are protecting against an invasion across\u2062 somebody else&#8217;s border when we should use those same military resources to prevent \u2063the \u200binvasion of our own southern border here in the United States of America,\u201d Mr. Ramaswamy\u200d said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are\u200d driving Russia further into China&#8217;s hands. The Russia-China alliance is the single\u2063 greatest threat we face,\u201d he continued, adding that he finds it \u201coffensive\u201d that \u201cprofessional politicians on the stage\u201d have\u200b traveled to Ukraine \u2064and not to locations in their own country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think we have to put\u2063 the interests of Americans first,\u201d Mr. Ramaswamy said.<\/p>\n<p>Former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/candidates-clash-over-ukraine-aid-at-gop-debate\/\" title=\"GOP debate sees candidates clash over Ukraine aid.\">multiple heated\u200b exchanges<\/a> with Mr. Ramaswamy throughout the debate, defended his visit \u200cto Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll right.\u200b Look, I did go to \u2064Ukraine. \u2064And I went to\u2064 Ukraine because \u2063I wanted to see for myself \u2062what Vladimir Putin&#8217;s army was doing to the free Ukrainian people,\u201d Mr. Christie explained.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want you all to look around this arena tonight\u2064 and imagine that \u200cevery one of these seats was filled. And if every one of them was filled, there would still be 2,500 more children outside to make \u200dover 20,000 who have \u2062been abducted, stolen, ripped from their mothers and fathers and brought back to Russia to be\u200d programmed to fight their own families,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey \u2062have gouged out people&#8217;s eyes, cut off their ears, and shot people in the back of the head, and then gone into those homes \u2064and raped the daughters and the wives who are left as widows and orphans. This is the Vladimir Putin who Donald Trump called brilliant \u200band a \u200cgenius,\u201d Mr. Christie said.<\/p>\n<p>Former Vice President Mike Pence took issue with Mr. Ramaswamy\u2019s assertion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody that thinks that we can&#8217;t solve the problems here in the United States and be the leader of the free world has\u200c a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/tucker-carlson-presses-mike-pence-on-his-support-for-us-assistance-to-ukraine\/\" title=\"Tucker Carlson questions Pence's backing of US aid to Ukraine.\">pretty small view<\/a>\u2063 of the \u200dgreatest nation on \u2063Earth,\u201d Mr. Pence said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe can do both. We&#8217;ve done both,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. \u2062Pence referenced the Reagan Doctrine, which he \u200dsaid made it clear \u201cif you&#8217;re willing to\u200d fight the communists on your soil, we&#8217;ll give you\u2064 the means to fight them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf we do the giveaway that \u200dyou want to give to Putin his \u200cland, it is not going to be too long before he rolls across a \u2064NATO border. And frankly, [the] \u200dmen and women of our armed forces are going to have to go and fight him. I want to let the Ukrainians fight and \u200cdrive the Russians back\u200b out to Russia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ramaswamy pushed back by arguing, \u201cThe\u2064 real threat we face today is Communist China, and \u2063we are \u200bdriving Russia further into China&#8217;s arms.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Russia-China\u200b military alliance\u2062 is\u200d the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lawmakers-consider-enacting-statute-to-increase-punishments-for-domestic-terrorism\/\" title=\"Lawmakers consider enacting statute to increase punishments for domestic terrorism\">single greatest threat<\/a> we face. Nobody in either political party\u2019s talking about it,\u201d he warned.<\/p>\n<p>Former\u2063 South Carolina\u2063 Gov. \u200dNikki Haley, who also served as U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., remarked that \u201cthe American president needs to have moral clarity, they need to know\u200c the difference between right and wrong, they need to know the\u200b difference \u200bbetween good and evil.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Less than 3.5 percent of the\u200d U.S. national defense \u200cbudget \u200chas been given to Ukraine, Ms. Haley noted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you look at the percentages per GDP, 11 of the Eu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the Biden administration seeking $24 billion in aid for Ukraine, candidates at the 2024 Republican primary debate were questioned about ending support for increased funding. Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy, positioned in the center, responded to the inquiry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":492,"featured_media":2010343,"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":[543],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times"],"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\/2010342","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\/492"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010342"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010342\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2010343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}