'Scared to Death': GOP Security Hawks Slam Vance Selection

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

82% : When I wondered how ferocious the internal debates would be between Vance, Cotton and Pompeo, Thune, who's running for Senate Republican Leader, acknowledged they'd be "very robust," adding that Trump would surely delight in presiding over the Situation Room scrum.
69% : Trump told me when I asked if he was ready to declare victory.
52% : After insisting that Trump believes in "peace through strength," the Reagan credo, I asked Ernst if Vance does.
50% : The loudest voice for maintaining the party's traditional posture on national security also happens to be a talented Republican in-fighter, but outgoing Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell has little direct influence with Trump.
49% : Should Trump prevail in November, the non-interventionists will have one of their most articulate advocates at Trump's side.
43% : "While he had it on before Trump announced his running mate, the Ukrainian flag pin on the lapel of Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.), the ranking Republican on the Armed Services Committee, neatly illustrated without the necessity of words the gulf between so much of the GOP and Vance on the war in Europe.
41% : By tapping the 39-year-old Sen. J.D. Vance, one of the party's leading national security doves, Trump strengthened the hand of the isolationist forces eager to undo the hawkish GOP consensus that has endured since the Reagan era.
37% : In a series of interviews, Republicans from the Reaganite wing openly urged Trump to counter Vance's influence by appointing more hawkish national security officials.
37% : Those internal battles will likely return should Trump reclaim the White House.
24% : "He does because Trump does," she shot back.
14% : "With President Joe Biden still under pressure from his own party to withdraw from the race and Trump lifted after surviving an assassination attempt, high-ranking Republicans have never felt so optimistic this year about their prospects.

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