Last night was hardly Volodymyr Zelenskiy’s first time on stage. And, after advancing to the second round of Ukraine’s presidential elections with a double-digit lead over the incumbent president, it will certainly not be his last.Speaking from the stage to a crowd of supporters and journalists at his Kyiv campaign headquarters—a headquarters replete with ping-pong tables, foosball and free liquor—Zelenskiy had plenty of digs at President Petro Poroshenko as the results came in. “There are many exit polls—there is only one winner,” Zelenskiy said, mocking one of Poroshenko’s slogans during the campaign (“There are many candidates—there is only one president”).The …read more
Source: The New Republic
