A GOP rift over Ukraine

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🗓️ 17 March 2023

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U.S. aid to Ukraine is becoming a lightning rod issue among Republicans who are positioning themselves for 2024. Florida Governor Ron DeSantis made waves this week when he came out against U.S. support in Ukraine. Plus, a lifeline for First Republic Bank. And, cutting down on the cost of streaming. Guests: Axios' Margaret Talev, Javier E. David and Rahul Mukherjee. Credits: Axios Today is produced by Niala Boodhoo, Alexandra Botti, Naomi Shavin, Fonda Mwangi and Ben O'Brien. Music is composed by Evan Viola. You can reach us at [email protected]. You can text questions, comments and story ideas to Niala as a text or voice memo to 202-918-4893. Go Deeper: Two Americas Index: Ukraine divides conservatives First Republic rescue calms markets, but worst not over yet Streaming Optimizer Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Good morning. Welcome, Naxios today. It's Friday, March 17th. I'm Nailibudu. Here's
0:09.2	what we're following today. A lifeline for First Republic Bank. Plus, cutting down
0:13.6	on the cost of streaming. But first, a GOP Rift over Ukraine. That's our one big thing.
0:20.7	USAID to Ukraine is becoming a lightning rod issue among Republicans who are positioning
0:28.0	themselves as 2024 contenders. Excused Senior Contributor Margaret Taliv has new polling
0:33.9	on how Republican voters feel about the war in Ukraine and joins us now for a Friday
0:38.3	state of play. Hey, Margaret, welcome back. Hi, Nailibu. Thank you.
0:41.9	So this week, Florida Governor Rhonda Santas came out against U.S. support of Ukraine in
0:47.0	the war against Russia, calling it a territorial dispute. What was the response from Republican
0:52.5	Party leadership? I mean, why would become a lightning rod issue, right? You're seeing
0:57.4	a big pushback from fellow Florida Republican and Marco Rubio, Senator Marco Rubio. Remember,
1:05.0	Donald Trump, until this moment has been kind of the head of the, why are we so involved in
1:10.0	Ukraine caucus and Fox News host, Tucker Carlson, who's been beating on this drum for quite a while.
1:15.0	So what our new survey found, and this is the Axios partnership with Ipsos. We call it
1:19.9	the two Americas index is that only 42% of Republicans who are surveyed now say that they
1:26.7	support sending U.S. weapons and money to Ukraine. And that's like half of the share of support
1:32.8	from Democrats and even independence, about 60% of independence support continuing to support
1:37.7	Ukraine. Republicans are just in a completely different place than the rest of America. So most
1:43.6	of the American public at this moment says the U.S. should stand with Ukraine. We all expect
1:49.4	Rhonda Santas to enter the presidential contest, but if he or if Donald Trump were to emerge as
1:55.3	the nominee, and if Republicans were to win the next presidential election with a candidate who
2:00.3	espoused these views, it would be a complete upending of U.S. foreign policy. And that is getting
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