White working-class Catholics in Parma, Ohio voted heavily for Trump in 2016 and 2020. But Parma, a suburb of Cleveland, is home to one of the largest communities of Ukrainian-Americans in the country and they are not real happy with Donald Trump and Tucker Carlson dismissing Ukraine and praising Putin.
This Politico article explains the situation well: Tucker Carlson Says Ukraine Isn’t Important. These Key GOP Voters Beg to Differ. February, 21, 2022.
… Ohio’s Ukrainians are well-organized and politically active — a Midwestern constituency with a strong working-class element that actually votes in part on foreign policy, and punches well above its size in their state’s politics … There aren’t specific polls on Ukrainian voting patterns in the state, but traditionally these voters made up a “Reagan Republican-like community,” says Andrew Futey, president of the Ukrainian Congress Committee of America, a nonpartisan national nonprofit that advocates for Ukrainian-American interests. Futey, an Ohioan who is active in Republican politics, describes most Ukrainian voters here as strong on national defense, anti-socialism and pro-small government — in other words, a natural constituency for a certain kind of Republican ...
All the Republican candidates for Senate are claiming to be the most Trumpian, but this may not help their prospects in the Ukrainian community:
… He [Roman Bodnaruk] and [his son] Marko both consider themselves Republicans, and they’re the kind of Ukrainian-Americans who now find themselves conflicted. Both told me they’re satisfied with Biden’s response to the crisis so far, and both admire Marcy Kaptur, the Democratic co-chair of the Congressional Ukraine Caucus, whose district includes Parma.
Marko told me he voted for Trump in both 2016 and 2020, but struggled with the decision because of Trump’s rhetoric; many of his Ukrainian-American acquaintances ultimately supported Trump over Biden. But he also recalls customers telling his father they would stop being Republican because of Trump. During the 2020 election, he says, one client, during what started as a friendly chat about politics, got agitated and called the then-president an idiot. … If the Senate choice is between an engagement-oriented Democrat like Rep. Tim Ryan, who has called for sending Ohio-built tanks to Poland to deter Russia, or a Tucker Carlson-style Republican like Mandel, Marko doesn’t know whom he will pick. ...