dr Cassandra Nojdh skrev: ↑tisdag 16 juli 2024 11:01
D.J. Trump har i varje fall valt en av GOP-partiets värsta högerextremister till sin vicepresidentkandidat, senatorn och Ukraina-fienden J.D. Vance.
Det var ju snällt av Trump att
ge en livlina åt Biden:
Washington Examiner skrev:Indeed, he has thrown the flailing Democrats a campaign lifeline, giving them a new, surefire way to scare undecided voters away from voting for Trump or to move from staying neutral to voting for President Joe Biden instead. Vance isn’t remotely suitable to be the proverbial heartbeat of the presidency.
First, on purely political grounds, Vance is an odd choice. Vance has been in the Senate less than 18 months without remotely distinguishing himself with legislative accomplishments, and he proved a very weak vote-getter in his one and only political campaign. While he did win, he ran so far behind other statewide Republican candidates in Ohio that it was embarrassing. Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) won reelection by 25%. Attorney General Dave Yost and Secretary of State Frank La Rose both won by 20%. But Vance ran a gaffe-prone race and stumbled into office in his heavily Republican state by only 6%. He showed no ability to appeal to traditional suburban voters and little appeal to women.
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Perhaps Trump doesn’t realize how strongly many swing voters feel in favor of Ukraine, but he and Vance will soon find out, to their dismay.
Notera att Washington Examiner - ej att förväxla med Washington Post - är en konservativ tidning. Vidare har Vance ett
komplicerat förhållande med Labour:
The Guardian skrev:Vance was speaking at the National Conservatism conference on Thursday, where he said: “I have to beat up on the UK – just one additional thing. I was talking with a friend recently and we were talking about, you know, one of the big dangers in the world, of course, is nuclear proliferation, though, of course, the Biden administration doesn’t care about it.
“And I was talking about, you know, what is the first truly Islamist country that will get a nuclear weapon, and we were like, maybe it’s Iran, you know, maybe Pakistan already kind of counts, and then we sort of finally decided maybe it’s actually the UK, since Labour just took over.”
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“Trump makes people I care about afraid. Immigrants, Muslims, etc. Because of this I find him reprehensible. God wants better of us,” he wrote in October 2016.
Dessutom är han kappvändare snarare än putinist.
Donald Trump has ‘well-founded plans’ for Russia-Ukraine peace talks, Viktor Orbán claims
Financial Times skrev:That means the EU should anticipate the shift in US policy, Orbán said, and either embrace the need for immediate negotiations between Russia and Ukraine or take on more responsibility for funding Ukraine’s defence.
JD Vance, the Republican senator from Ohio who Trump on Monday selected as his running mate, used an opinion piece in the FT in February to call for Europe to take on a larger burden in supporting Ukraine.
Orbán wrote in his letter: “I am more than convinced that in the likely outcome of the victory of President Trump, the proportion of the financial burden between the US and the EU will significantly change to the EU’s disadvantage when it comes to the financial support of Ukraine.”
Någon borde kanske berätta för Orban att Ungern
är med i EU. Putin har bråttom: Antalet
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