VOA Asked GOP Presidential Hopeful Mike Pence About His Support For Ukraine | VOA News

VOA's Russian Service asked U.S. Republican presidential hopeful Mike Pence about his support for Ukraine. Pence answered by saying, "America should be there supporting the Ukrainian military," "fighting them [the Russians] there so [the U.S.] doesn't have to."

The two-hour televised debate on Wednesday night, the first held by Republicans in this election cycle, featured spirited exchanges about what one of the moderators called "the elephant who is not in the room" – the absent party front-runner, former President Donald Trump, who decided he is so far ahead in the polls he did not need to be on the stage.

Some of the contenders, such as Pence, Trump’s former vice president, and former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, deemed Trump disqualified from serving again because of what they said was his disrespect for the Constitution, as well as the 91 felony counts he now faces.

"The American people need to know that the president asked me to put him over the Constitution," demanding he refuse to oversee the congressional certification that Democrat Joe Biden had defeated Trump in the 2020 election, Pence told the audience in the Fiserv Forum.