Beyond the Polls: Foreign policy issue exposes a world of differences

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

52% : Other Top 5 issues voted on by residents who attended The Day forums included misinformation and disinformation (No. 5), the environment and climate change (No. 4), immigration and border policy (No. 3) and protecting democracy (No. 1), which will be addressed in a story next month.
48% : "When it comes to international trade, the nonpartisan Council on Foreign Relations has noted Trump's argument that "the global trading system is rigged against U.S. interests and responsible for large trade deficits, declining U.S. manufacturing, and the offshoring of American jobs."
45% : Trump has proposed a "universal" tariff on most imports, which economists have said could cost Americans hundreds of dollars a year as costs are passed on to consumers.
44% : And neither Democrat Kamala Harris nor her Republican challenger did much in their presidential debate last month to differentiate themselves, he said, calling Trump largely incoherent, while the vice president was happy to play it safe.
44% : The Project 2025 document, which Trump has denied knowledge of even though his vice presidential running mate wrote the forward to it and dozens of the former president's closest allies were involved in writing it, cites the policy recommendations as an effort to "reorient the U.S. government's posture toward friends and adversaries alike ...
42% : Harris immediately shot back that had Trump been president during the Russian invasion of Ukraine, "Putin would be sitting in Kyiv with his eyes on the rest of Europe."
37% : Yet the two are very different on the question of the NATO military alliance, with Harris seeing it as a key to avoiding a world war and promoting free trade while Trump views it from a "gangster" mentality, he said, trying to extract maximum concessions and deference from European powers.
30% : "I want the war to stop," Trump said when pressed on his views on Ukraine, going on to claim he would negotiate a deal between the warring parties before he assumed office.
27% : "Trump also was unwilling to state during the debate whether he was hoping Ukraine would win its war against Russia.
25% : Trump may engage in containment but he frightens our foes.
21% : Fleury said Harris likely improved her chances of winning on the foreign policy front by looking presidential during the debate and showing she could go toe to toe with Trump by jabbing him on all the members of his former administration, including foreign policy adviser John Bolton and chief of staff John Kelly, who have warned that he was unfit for office.
21% : Trump also took his America First policy seriously, as noted by the conservative website The Hill when columnist Donald Kirk wrote last month, "Trump ... shows no inclination to defend either America's allies in Asia or to honor America's 'commitment' to Taiwan.
15% : As for their positions on the Middle East, Fleury doesn't see a lot of difference, though Trump would likely take a harder line than Harris, allowing Israel to bomb opposition forces "into the Stone Age," he said.
10% : Fleury called Trump's vow to solve the Ukraine crisis on Day 1 "empty showmanship," but said he branded Harris's prediction that Trump would cede Poland to Russia if he won the presidency as "alarmist."

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