So far, Biden hasn't directly called out Republicans who have praised Putin — a contrast that other Dems are sharply starting to make. “‘We’re Zelenskyy Democrats. And they’re Putin Republicans’ would be my bumper sticker.” said Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney.
choosing instead to argue that the current invasion never would have happened under the last president.
“There’s been wide bipartisan support for the president’s actions, but sadly some fringe Republicans are using this as an opportunity to try to score political points,” said Mike Gwin, a White House spokesperson. “Unfortunately for them, from President Trump on down, they can’t seem to decide day-to-day which side they’re on, or whether Putin is a ‘genius’ after all.”
In his State of the Union address, Biden laid out how the West and Europe have countered Putin, who he said badly “miscalculated” on trying to shake the foundations of the free world. Together, they have imposed powerful sanctions to cut off Russia’s largest banks from the international financial system; choked off the country’s access to technology and closed off wide swaths of air space to all Russian flights.
Republican criticisms of Biden’s response to Russia presents the latest example of attacks that haven’t been met with equal force and frequency. Florida Sen. Rick Scott, head of Senate Republicans’ campaign arm, recently said Democrats and the “woke left” are the “” the country and present a greater danger to America than enemies during the Civil War, World War II and the Cold War.
Party officials and strategists working closely with the White House on the midterms also privately acknowledge that they’re all still trying to dig out of the hole Afghanistan put them in, a pullout that coincided with Biden’s precipitous slide in polls. In the handful of early public surveys on Russia, voters have given Biden low marks on Russia and Ukraine, but some of the same polls have found that his numbers were rising in recent days.
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