Trump-endorsed Senate candidates including Adam Laxalt and J.D. Vance also attacked their Democratic opponents online who supported the bill.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell is facing resistance from Trump-backed candidates over a $40 billion Ukrainian aid bill. The bill would provide more support for Ukraine’s military and refugees as the country continues to fight off Russia’s invasion. However, some Trump-aligned Senate candidates have rejected the bill—a sign of a growing divide within the Republican Party with regards to foreign policy. Some of the candidates are attacking their Democratic opponents for supporting the bill—by extension an attack on McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, who is pushing for the its passage. Adam Laxalt, Nevada’s former attorney general, who is now challenging incumbent Democratic Senator Catherine Cortez Masto, said in a statement that he opposes the „shockingly abhorrent proposal.“
He criticized the bill, saying it would „ship $40 billion of our tax dollars into a war zone in Ukraine, while at the same time our families here at home are facing record gas prices, crippling inflation, the nation’s third highest unemployment rate, and an open border that continues fueling alarming spikes in drug deaths and sex trafficking.
