{"id":4547,"date":"2024-05-18T21:11:35","date_gmt":"2024-05-18T21:11:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/ukraine-gamble-pays-off-republicans-face-little-backlash-in-primaries\/"},"modified":"2024-05-18T21:11:35","modified_gmt":"2024-05-18T21:11:35","slug":"ukraine-gamble-pays-off-republicans-face-little-backlash-in-primaries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/2024\/05\/18\/ukraine-gamble-pays-off-republicans-face-little-backlash-in-primaries\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukraine gamble pays off: Republicans face little backlash in primaries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">Three weeks before their GOP primary, Sens. Deb Fischer and Peter Ricketts took a politically risky move.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">The Nebraska Republicans had reversed their opposition to a massive national security package and voted to approve the funding even though it included $61 billion for shoring up Ukraine\u2019s defenses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wpds-c-cYdRxM wpds-c-cYdRxM-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\">For months, aid to Ukraine remained on pause as so many Republicans feared that it was a red line for conservative voters who had heard nothing but criticism from ex-president Donald Trump and far-right personalities such as Tucker Carlson.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<div>This post appeared first on The Washington Post<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three weeks before their GOP primary, Sens. Deb Fischer and Peter Ricketts took a politically risky move. The Nebraska Republicans had reversed their opposition to a massive national security package and voted to approve the funding even though it included $61 billion for shoring up Ukraine\u2019s defenses. For months, aid to Ukraine remained on pause [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4547\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstriumphs.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}