House Republicans, including Representatives Lauren Boebert (R-CO), Kat Cammack (R-FL), Madison Cawthorn (R-NC), Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), Lisa McClain (R-MI) and Jody Hice (R-GA), who oppose mask mandates march as a group to the Senate chamber to highlight different coronavirus disease (COVID-19) mask rules between the House and Senate sides of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., July 29, 2021. REUTERS/Elizabeth Frantz
WASHINGTON, March 13 (Reuters) - The war in Ukraine has opened a new front in the U.S. Republican Party's civil war, with party primary candidates vying to run in the November midterm elections attacking each other for past comments praising Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In Senate and House of Representatives races in at least three states, Republican candidates have been put on the defensive over comments describing Putin as intelligent, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy as a "thug" and Ukraine as not worth defending. They now face criticism at a time when U.S. public opinion strongly supports Ukraine and its president.
Pat McCrory, a leading Republican Senate candidate in North Carolina's May 17 primary election, lashed out this week at his Trump-backed Republican rival, Representative Ted Budd, in his first TV ad.
"While Ukrainians bled and died ... Congressman Budd excused their killer," McCrory says in the ad, which is interspersed with video clips from a TV interview showing Budd describing Putin as "a very intelligent actor" with...
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