While campaigning to regain the U.S. presidency, Donald Trump said that he would be able to end Russia's war in Ukraine in 24 hours, warned that Israel would be "eradicated" if he lost the election and vowed sweeping new tariffs on Chinese imports.
President-elect Trump wants to put familiar faces on his national security team after being burned during his first term. Why it matters: Sources said Trump doesn't want former generals on his national security team and prefers businessmen and CEOs — but he's also considering a line-up of loyalists in prominent D.
As the candidates made their last-minute pitches in the waning days of the U.S. presidential election, a few key voter blocs have come into clearer view. Foreign-policy issues could sway their decisions. Our Postcards From the Wedge series has reported on these trends in swing states and contentious races. Check out the latest entries below.
A second Donald J. Trump presidency would almost certainly mark a return to an era of foreign policy decrees, untethered to any policy process, at a moment of maximum international peril.
Stepanka Hauskrecht, 47, an accounting manager for a construction company, said she voted for Kamala Harris in part because she believes the Democrat would handle foreign policy with a steadier hand than Donald Trump.
Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), the ranking member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, said early Wednesday that the U.S. is entering a period of “pragmatic foreign policy,” following former President Trump’s victory in the presidential election.
‘I’M GOING TO STOP WARS’: With Republicans poised to hold the House and take control of the Senate, Trump will effectively have prepotency over all three branches of government and, with it, the freedom to enact all the policies he’s been touting on the campaign trail for months, which he called “a common core of common sense.”
Donald Trump has publicly stated that he talks to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu regularly, with Netanyahu asking Trump for advice, seemingly as part of a shadow foreign policy that also reportedly includes contacts with Russia’ Vladimir Putin.
It is among the most consequential decisions presidents can make, when to go to war and how to support America’s partners in their wars. As part of our series looking at the candidates’ policies, Nick Schifrin explores Kamala Harris' and Donald Trump's positions on the wars in Ukraine and the Middle East,
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Tex., and Rep. Mike Waltz, R-Fla., discuss the consequences of the Biden-Harris foreign policy on 'One Nation with Brian Kilmeade.'
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