different issues, but foreign policy is an area where you are seeing contrasts. for example, what the united states or to do with respect to the ongoing conflict in ukraine, that is a major source of contention, and there are very real differences between, let s say, nikki haley and vivek ramaswamy, or donald trump, or even ron desantis. an interesting thing here is you are seeing this divergence within the republican party where the top three polling contenders nationally right now, that would be trump, ron desantis and ramaswamy, have all embraced a point of view on the us ukraine situation that is very much counter to what the traditional republican reagan view of this would be. and so i think it s a very interesting point of contrast. it s one of the few points of contrast, and that s why you see commentators as well as the debate hosts on wednesday evening or earlier this week, they definitely focused on that. 5 they definitely focused on that. ,, . they definitely focused on th
of view on the us ukraine situation that is very much counter to what the traditional republican reagan view of this would be, and so i think it s a very interesting point of contrast. it s one of the few points of contrast, and that s why you see commentators as well as the debate hosts on wednesday evening or earlier this week, they definitely focused on that. i want to dig into those conflicting views, specifically on the war in ukraine. this is what chris christie had to say during the debate. if we don t stand up against this type of autocratic killing in the world, we will be next. lanhee, do you think that reflects where republican voters actually stand on contributing aid to the ukrainians? because there was a recent cnn poll released that shows that 71% of republicans broadly say congress should not authorise new funding. yeah, i think republican voters many republican voters are quite sceptical of the position articulated by governor christie.
let s bring in nbc s dasha burns in milwaukee, the site of the debate, with brendan buck, former press secretary for house speaker john boehner and former detectivic congresswoman from maryland donna edwards. without trump on that stage tomorrow night, what can we expect? look, this is another major moment for the republican party that the former president has decided to snub. and that nevertheless will be playing out under trump s shadow. he has forced a split screen moment where while the debate is happening, we re likely to see a tucker carlson interview that he has pretaped, playing out at the same time. we know that the debate hosts will be asking the candidates about the former president. we know all of the candidates are preparing to figure out how to keep walking that fine line, how to talk about the former president, who is going to be attack him, who is going to be