Republicans are hammering Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky after he criticized Sen. JD Vance (R-Ohio) in an interview and visited a Pennsylvania ammunition factory over the weekend along with the state’s Democratic governor, Josh Shapiro.

Zelensky is in the United States for the United Nations’ General Assembly this week. The GOP claimed the Pennsylvania stop on Sunday amounted to Zelensky campaigning for Democratic presidential nominee Vice President Harris and Democrats while using American taxpayer dollars. Zelensky was flown to Pennsylvania in a C-17 Air Force plane.

“Zelensky is openly campaigning for Democrats in battleground Pennsylvania today some 50 days out from our Presidential election. Unreal,” wrote Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-Mo.) on X.

At a rally for former President Trump and his running mate, Vance, former Trump-backed Senate candidate Sean Parnell said Zelensky was in Pennsylvania “signing bombs with governor Shapiro.”

“Zelensky is also attacking JD Vance in the biggest, most important battleground state in the country during an election year, if that isn’t foreign election interference I don’t know what is,” Parnell said.

In an interview with the New Yorker published on Sunday, Zelensky called Vance “too radical” for his views on Ukraine, and suggested the........

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