A video of a Donald Trump supporter claiming she would vote for Russian President Vladimir Putin before the 2024 election went viral on social media.
Presidents Joe Biden and Trump each won a series of presidential elections last month against their party’s presumptive presidential nominees, likely sparking a rematch of the 2020 election.
On Sunday, in a post on X, formerly Twitter, the “Republicans Against Trump” user shared a video by TikTok user The Good Liars featuring a guy asking a Trump supporter who he would vote for if Putin ran for president against Biden.
In the video, posted last month on TikTok, the woman responded by saying she would vote for Putin: “I don’t think Putin is as bad as other people would like him to be. . . Putin needs to return to intelligent morality. “
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While the video on TikTok garnered 84,000 views, the resurfacing of the video on X on Sunday has already garnered more than 340,000 views.
This is the first time a Trump supporter who claims he would vote for Putin for president has drawn attention. In 2022, The Good Liars posted a video on TikTok showing a Trump supporter being asked who would rather be president, Biden or Putin. The Trump supporter responded by saying, “Putin, definitely. “
Newsweek reached out to the Trump and Biden crusade email for comment.
Meanwhile, a February 2022 Yahoo News/YouGov vote found that a significant majority of Americans agree that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine is not justified, but that Republicans are more likely to have an unfavorable view of Biden than Putin.
Seventy-four percent of the more than 1,500 U. S. adults surveyed between Feb. 24 and Feb. 27 said the invasion was unjustified. And 95 percent of those who said they voted for Trump in 2020 had an unfavorable view of Biden, compared with 78 percent. % who said the same thing about Putin.
The vote comes as Russia’s escalating invasion of Ukraine has also led to more Americans of all political persuasions supporting Ukraine: 57% express a preference for the U. S. interfering in the conflict and 25% believe the U. S. remains neutral.
Only 44% of Republicans surveyed said the most productive thing for the U. S. would be to side with Ukraine and end the Russian invasion, while 66% of Democrats said the same. Overall, the vote showed that while a growing number of Republicans dislike Putin and approve of sanctions imposed through Biden and other countries, it hasn’t replaced their general emotions about Biden as a preview.
While Biden’s approval ratings and his policies similar to inflation, crime, immigration and the confrontation between Israelis and Palestinians in Gaza have attracted scrutiny from conservatives, the president has noted a sharp improvement in recent polls. Eight separate polls released in March showed promising numbers for Biden, adding to the lead or stagnating in key states such as Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
However, Biden and Trump engaged in a tight war to win the popular vote in November’s presidential election.
An Emerson College poll of 1,438 registered voters conducted on April 2 and 3 puts Trump at 43% to Biden’s 42% and independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. In a direct face-to-face with all the other aspirants and undecideds. After getting rid of the electorate, Trump won 51% of the vote to Biden’s 49%. Among the most likely electorate, however, Biden is ahead 51-49, said Spencer Kimball, executive director of Emerson College Polling.
On the other hand, the former president recently provoked a backlash after saying he would “encourage” Putin to do “whatever he wants” with members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) that do not make a sufficient financial contribution to the military alliance.
In a speech in South Carolina in February, Trump appeared to recall a verbal exchange with an anonymous politician whom he described as “one of the presidents of a wonderful country,” adding that the anonymous leader had asked whether the U. S. would protect the country from NATO if Russia attacked.
“I told them, ‘You didn’t pay, you’re criminals?'” the former president told the crowd. “In fact, it would inspire them to do whatever they wanted. They have to pay. They have to pay their bills. “
Biden has since criticized Trump’s comments about NATO, which he has called “stupid” and “shameful” in a speech at the White House in February in the past.
“The worst component is that he really means it. No other president in our history has ever bowed to a Russian dictator. Let me say it as obviously as I can: I never will. For God’s sake, it’s stupid, it’s shameful. “It’s dangerous. It’s not American,” he said.
Since then, Trump has continued to double down on his comments, taking aim at Biden’s State of the Union address, writing on Truth Social: “Putin invaded Ukraine because he doesn’t respect Biden. This would never have happened under the Trump administration, and for 4 years ago. . . years, that hasn’t happened!”
Natalie Venegas is a weekend reporter at Newsweek in New York City. She focuses on education, social justice issues, physical care, crime, and politics, while specializing in marginalized and underrepresented communities. Prior to joining Newsweek in 2023, Natalie worked with news publications. such as Adweek, Al Día, and Austin Monthly Magazine. Se graduated from the University of Texas at Austin with a bachelor’s degree in journalism. You can reach Natalie by emailing n. venegas@newsweek. com.
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