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Dem voters were less enthusiastic when Trump touted crackdown on cartels and fentanyl, SOTU dial reveals

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Republican and Independent voters reacted favorably when President Donald Trump brought up how his administration has cracked down on drug cartels and fentanyl, but Democrats appeared less motivated by Trump’s aggressive foreign policy stance.
«For years, large swaths of territory in our region, including large parts of Mexico, really large parts of Mexico, have been controlled by murderous drug cartels. That’s why I designated these cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, and I declared illicit fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction,» Trump said to applause as he turned to look at Republicans.
Per a panel assembled by polling group Maslansky & Partners of 29 Democrats, 30 Independents, and 40 Republicans, which tracked their real-time reactions during Trump’s SOTU address, Democrats appeared to go slightly below baseline when Trump began touting his aggressive stance towards cartels in Central and South America, specifically his administration’s bombing campaign against them which has included attacks in the open ocean off the South American coastline and in the eastern Pacific.
Meanwhile, Republicans and Independents showed a much stronger favorable reaction to the president’s remarks about the actions his administration has taken against drug cartels and illegal fentanyl.
Polling data showed Republicans and Independents reacted far more favorably to President Trump’s talk about cracking down on drug cartels than Democrats during his State of the Union address Tuesday night. (Fox News)
During his address, Trump also highlighted the U.S.’s help in capturing drug kingpin «El Mencho» earlier this month in Mexico. Ruben «Nemesio» Oseguera Cervantes, known as «El Mencho,» the leader of the CJNG, was killed Sunday in a Mexican military operation in Tapalpa, Mexico, authorities said. Though the operation was carried out by Mexican forces, the United States laid the groundwork, making El Mencho’s fall possible.
On President Donald Trump’s first day in office, he signed an executive order directing the State Department to designate several cartels and international criminal groups «foreign terrorist organizations» (FTOs), a designation unlocking military-grade surveillance and «material support» prosecutions. Though lesser known than MS-13 or Tren de Aragua, CJNG was one of the groups designated an FTO by the administration.
Shortly after Trump’s executive order, Attorney General Pam Bondi sent a policy memorandum to all Department of Justice employees, announcing a «fundamental change in mindset and approach» to cartels and transnational criminal organizations to a policy of «total elimination.»
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President Donald Trump has declared an «armed conflict» against cartels carrying drugs into the U.S. and has unleashed a series of strikes on drug boats. (@realDonaldTrump via Truth Social; Evan Vucci/AP Photo; Aaron Favila / The Associated Press)
The Trump administration has engaged in an aggressive bombing campaign against cartel boats throughout both 2025 and 2026. The U.S. has also conducted non-lethal maritime drug interdiction efforts as well.
In early 2026, Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro was captured by U.S. forces and extradited to New York on drug trafficking and narco-terrorism charges, with Trump accusing him at the time of being a «kingpin of a vast criminal network.»

Former Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro is arrested. (Fox Nation)
The recent violence and capture of El Mencho this month has led American tourists to be trapped in Mexico. According to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, the State Department has been taking «hundreds of calls a day» providing Americans with travel support and advice.
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«We are unaware of any reports of any Americans being hurt, kidnapped, or killed, and the Mexican drug cartels know not to lay a finger on a single American or they will pay severe consequences under this president – and they already are,» Leavitt told Fox News.
Fox News Digital’s Peter Pinedo contributed to this report.
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Voters react to SOTU moment when Trump got standing ovation from longtime Dem nemesis

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Polling data tracking voters’ real-time reactions to President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address, showed Independents and Republicans were highly motivated when the president urged members of Congress to pass restrictions on congressional stock trading, but Democrats appeared less enthused.
This moment in Trump’s address was one of the few moments during the speech when Democrats inside the House chamber, including Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., offered standing applause.
«They stood up for that, I can’t believe it. I can’t believe it,» Trump quipped after calling for an end to congressional stock trading. «Think Nancy Pelosi would stand up if she was here? Doubt it. Pass the Stop Insider Trading Act without delay,» the president continued to a roaring applause. During one moment, a camera panned over to Warren, who could be seen standing and clapping.
Republicans and Independents showed a marked difference in positive feelings, as opposed to Democrats, after President Trump urged lawmakers to pass tougher restrictions on congressional stock trading. (Fox News)
The dial test administered by Lee Carter, the president of Maslansky & Partners, showed that after Trump said the Stop Insider Trading Act must be passed «without delay» that Democrats remained largely stagnant, but Republicans and Independents reacted far more positively.
As the crowd inside the House chamber Tuesday night continued to applaud following Trump’s remark that a law on congressional stock trading restrictions should be passed immediately, the Democrats’ dial returned to baseline. It had taken a turn downwards after Trump took a jab at Pelosi over the matter. She has long been the brunt of criticism over the success of her stock portfolio and the manner in which certain trades have lined up with matters in front of lawmakers.
The group of voters monitored during the president’s speech Tuesday night, included 29 Democrats, 41 Republicans and 30 Independents.
Warren and other Democrats could be seen giving a standing ovation to the president’s urgency around adding stricter restrictions to congressional stock trading. Warren was also reportedly seen standing after Trump insisted Iran cannot be allowed to obtain a nuclear weapon.
When asked to respond to Trump’s jab at her Tuesday night, Pelosi told Trump to «look at your own self.»
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«The inference he wants to draw is there was something wrong with that, which there wasn’t, and if there was, people get prosecuted for it. For a long time now we’ve been trying to pass this law. It doesn’t have — now it has more support than it had before, and —» Pelosi said before being cut off by CNN’s Kasie Hunt, who pointed out Warren stood up to applaud Trump’s urging to pass the Stop Insider Trading Act.
«Well, we all did. I did too,» the former House speaker shot back. «He said, ‘Did Nancy stand up?’ Yeah, I did too. A lot of people stood up, a lot of Democrats stood up.»

Lawmakers attend the State of the Union address in the House Chamber of the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 24, 2026, in Washington, D.C. (Graeme Sloan/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The Stop Insider Trading Act would go beyond the current rules members of Congress must follow when trading on the stock market, ushered in by the 2012 STOCK Act. Since 2012, lawmakers have attempted to implement tighter federal restrictions to no avail.
While Trump’s urging to get the latest restrictions passed was one of the rare moments that Democrats appeared to applaud the president during his SOTU speech, left-wing nonprofit groups have simultaneously argued that the Stop Insider Trading Act does not actually go far enough to stop insider trading.
«Passing SITA would hide insider trading instead of stopping it, leading to the same concerns we see today,» said a statement earlier this month from Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW). «The only path forward that can rejuvenate the American people’s faith in Congress is serious reform though meaningful bipartisan cooperation.»
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CREW points to a bill it believes would do a better job at reining in insider trading among lawmakers called the Restore Trust in Congress Act, which «effectively bans members of Congress from buying, selling and owning stocks and their equivalents and ends the conflicts of interest that have plagued Congress for far too long.»
«Abandoning viable, bipartisan legislation in favor of partisanship and ineffectual half measures would be a political and ethical failure that would further erode Americans’ trust in government,» CREW insisted.
Fox News Digital’s Marc Tamasco contributed to this report.
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US military aircraft involved in ‘incident’ during training in Philippines, service members sent for treatment

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A U.S. military aircraft slammed into a concrete barrier during a takeoff attempt from a Philippine roadway, according to a report, and officials confirmed American service members on board were injured.
The incident happened Tuesday in Central Luzon, Philippines, as the aircraft was conducting training, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command confirmed to Fox News Digital in a statement.
«Two service members were transported to a medical facility for medical attention,» the statement said. «One of the individuals has been discharged, while the other remains in medical care and is in stable condition. No civilians were injured.»
The command said that the incident is currently under investigation.
The U.S. military did not immediately provide comment to Fox News Digital about the reported incident involving a U.S. Air Force transport plane crashing into a concrete barrier during takeoff in the Philippines on Tuesday. (Nicolas Economou/NurPhoto via Getty Images, File)
The accident happened during contingency training on a bypass road in Laoac town, The Associated Press reported, citing a local police report.
The aircraft had successfully landed but veered off course during takeoff and struck a concrete barrier, Philippine officials told the outlet.

Two American soldiers are seen in front of a M142 High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) vehicle parked outside the World Trade Center during the 2024 Asian Defense and Security Exhibition (ADAS), in Pasay City, Metro Manila, the Philippines, on Sept. 25, 2024. (Daniel Ceng/Anadolu via Getty Images)
The Philippine officials reportedly said that the training exercise, which was fully coordinated with local civilian, police and military authorities, was designed to prepare forces for emergencies when traditional runways are unusable due to disasters such as typhoons or earthquakes.
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U.S. forces frequently deploy aircraft in the Philippines to assist with humanitarian relief following natural disasters. The 1999 Visiting Forces Agreement allows U.S. troops to train alongside Filipino forces.
The incident comes amid heightened tensions in the region, particularly in the South China Sea, where China and the Philippines have clashed over disputed territory.

In this handout photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese coast guard ship uses water canons on a Philippine Coast Guard ship near the Philippine-occupied Second Thomas Shoal, South China Sea as they blocked its path during a re-supply mission on Aug. 5, 2023. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP, File)
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The U.S. has reaffirmed that it would defend the Philippines under a mutual defense treaty if its forces were attacked.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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