Ohio’s Senate race highlights Republican divide on Ukraine

Prominent Republican voices have risen in support of Ukraine. But the party’s voters in Ohio reveal an American mindset that far predates Trumpism: a wariness of engaging in foreign conflicts.

At a campaign event in a dark church basement in Mansfield, Ohio, an older man in a baseball cap leans back and asks Republican Senate candidate J.D. Vance about a controversial remark he made a few weeks back, in which he said he doesn’t “really care what happens to Ukraine.”

Mr. Vance – a former venture capitalist whose bestselling memoir, “Hillbilly...