Foreign Policy Has Become A Family Feud

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🗓️ 22 February 2024

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Both Democrats and Republicans are facing intraparty conflict over foreign policy, Democrats over the war in Gaza and Republicans over the war in Ukraine. Could these conflicts help determine who wins the presidency in November? On this episode of the 538 Politics podcast, the crew invites Dina Smeltz, senior fellow on public opinion and foreign policy at The Chicago Council on Global Affairs, to break down how the conflicts in Gaza and Ukraine have divided the parties. They also preview the upcoming South Carolina primary race, and ask whether a recent poll of political scientists intending to create a ranking of American presidents was a good or bad use of polling. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Leah and I met for the first time ever in person this weekend.
0:06.7	We did.
0:07.7	She was thrust into the middle of like a quick brunch with my friends from college.
0:13.2	They were kind of like what I imagine people
0:15.2	who have like a group of friends in New York to be.
0:18.2	They were cool, cooler than me.
0:20.2	I mean, what else would you expect?
0:21.6	Come on. Hello and we are back on the 538 politics podcast I'm Galen Druk and we are back on the
0:36.4	campaign trail this week with the South Carolina Republican primary on Saturday
0:41.2	according to our averages former President Trump leads
0:45.0	former South Carolina Governor Nicky Haley by 30 points in her home state.
0:50.0	Nonetheless, Haley gave a speech on Tuesday, in which she insisted that she's staying in the race well beyond South Carolina and amped up her criticism of Trump, particularly on his stance on Russia.
1:02.8	So we'll get into what we should expect on Saturday.
1:05.8	And on the topic of Russia, today we're going to talk about the complicated
1:10.2	politics of foreign policy within both parties and why it's led to a standstill in Congress.
1:16.9	This week, Haley said that, quote, Trump is siding with a dictator who kills his political
1:21.8	opponents,
1:22.8	highlighting a split within the GOP
1:24.7	over how to deal with Putin and whether to send military aid
1:27.7	to Ukraine.
1:28.9	On the other side of the aisle,
1:30.6	progressives have been increasingly critical of
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