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Sin Milei, la cumbre del Mercosur oficializó el inicio de negociaciones por un acuerdo de libre comercio con Japón

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Sin el presidente Javier Milei, la cumbre del Mercosur inició este martes sus deliberaciones con el anunciado comienzo de las negociaciones de un Acuerdo de Asociación Económica (AAE), equivalente a un tratado de libre comercio, entre el bloque regional y Japón.

“Celebro que lanzamos las negociaciones (…) del acuerdo de libre comercio con Japón”, señaló el presidente de Paraguay, Santiago Peña, en la LXVIII Cumbre de Jefes de Estado y de Gobierno del Mercosur.

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El mandatario paraguayo calificó el inicio de las negociaciones como “un paso histórico” que abre las puertas “de una de las economías más importantes del mundo” y que fortalece, según dijo, la proyección del Mercosur hacia Asia.

“Los japoneses son buenos amigos y son los mejores aliados que podemos tener en nuestro bloque. Les pido que podamos avanzar con ellos”, añadió Peña al dirigirse a sus homólogo de Brasil, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva; de Uruguay, Yamandú Orsi; Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz; Ecuador, Daniel Noboa; y Chile, José Antonio Kast, los dos últimos invitados.

Milei es el único presidente del bloque ausente en la reunión, que se celebra en Luque, en las afueras de Asunción. En la cumbre, Paraguay traspasará la presidencia pro-témpore a Uruguay.

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El canciller argentino, Pablo Quirno, ocupa el lugar del presidente Milei, que se quedó en Buenos Aires para atender “temas de gestión” en la antesala de la jura este martes de su nuevo jefe de Gabinete, Diego Santilli.

Pablo Quirno llamó a avanzar hacia una mayor apertura comercial

En su discurso, Pablo Quirno llamó al bloque suramericano a abandonar una visión proteccionista frente al escenario internacional y avanzar hacia una mayor apertura comercial.

“Señores presidentes, el Mercosur debe dejar de mirar el mundo como una amenaza y asumir el papel que le corresponde”, afirmó.

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El canciller Pablo Quirno (Foto: NA MARIANO SANCHEZ/ARCHIVO)

Además, consideró que el bloque “puede resignarse a administrar una estructura lenta, defensiva y alejada de las necesidades” de sus ciudadanos o “recuperar su vocación original y convertirse en una plataforma de prosperidad, competencia y proyección global”.

“El Mercosur necesita una discusión más profunda sobre su funcionamiento económico. Durante demasiado tiempo, nuestra región padeció una verdadera adicción al proteccionismo”, señaló.

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Quirno se reunió con el presidente de Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz, y le transmitió su “apoyo incondicional a la democracia boliviana” tras los 50 días de conflicto social y protestas impulsadas por sectores que exigían su renuncia..

“En el marco de la Cumbre del Mercosur, mantuve un encuentro con el presidente del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia, Rodrigo Paz. Le transmití el claro mensaje del presidente Milei: ‘El apoyo argentino a la democracia boliviana, ha sido, es y será incondicional’“, expresó Quirno a través de la red social X, donde publicó una foto junto a Paz.

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El Mercosur indicó en un comunicado que con este acuerdo las partes buscarán “ampliar el acceso a los mercados de bienes agrícolas y no agrícolas, la cooperación y las inversiones recíprocas, e integrar las cadenas de valor entre ambas economías”.

Durante los diálogos establecidos desde diciembre pasado, cuando se firmó el acuerdo Asociación Estratégica Mercosur-Japón, ambas partes confirmaron que, “frente a un escenario internacional inestable, cooperarán para garantizar la seguridad económica y alimentaria”, según la nota.

Santiago Pena saluda a Lula da Silva a su arribo a la cumbre del Mercosur (Foto: REUTERS/Cesar Olmedo)

Santiago Pena saluda a Lula da Silva a su arribo a la cumbre del Mercosur (Foto: REUTERS/Cesar Olmedo)

Esta cooperación incluye la diversificación de las cadenas de suministro en sectores estratégicos como minerales críticos, energía, tecnología y agronegocios.

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El acuerdo, añadió la nota, integrará una zona de libre comercio de aproximadamente 400 millones de personas y un producto interior bruto (PIB) combinado de 7 billones de dólares.

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Japón es uno de los diez principales socios comerciales del Mercosur, con un intercambio comercial de 13.700 millones de dólares en 2025.

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El 20 de diciembre pasado, los presidentes del Mercosur anunciaron, durante una cumbre en Foz de Iguazú (Brasil), el lanzamiento de las negociaciones para alcanzar un acuerdo de preferencias arancelarias con Vietnam.

Poco después, el 17 de enero, el bloque firmó con la Unión Europea (UE) un acuerdo que abrió una de las mayores zonas de libre comercio del mundo, con un mercado de más de 700 millones de consumidores y cerca de una cuarta parte del producto interno bruto (PIB) global.

Además, el Mercosur negocia acuerdos de comercio con Emiratos Árabes Unidos y Canadá, el Reino Unido, Indonesia y Malasia, y negocia una ampliación del acuerdo de preferencias arancelarias con la India.

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Una soda tras salir viva de la vivienda derrumbada: el relato de Marlene Santana y la búsqueda que no termina

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AME6002. CARACAS (VENEZUELA), 29/06/2026.- Marlene Santana, sobreviviente de los dos terremotos en Venezuela, posa durante una entrevista con EFE este lunes, en el Hospital Domingo Luciani, en Caracas (Venezuela). EFE/ Raúl Martínez

Bajo los restos de una vivienda derrumbada en La Guaira, una mujer venezolana de 69 años logró sobrevivir tras quedar atrapada durante casi tres días.

Su caso- retomado por la agencia EFE- se ha convertido en uno de los relatos más impactantes tras los dos terremotos que sacudieron el país y provocaron cientos de muertes y miles de heridos.

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El dramático episodio comenzó cuando Marlene Santana recibió un golpe en la cabeza durante el colapso de su casa de cuatro pisos. La vivienda, que había resistido el deslave de 1999, no soportó la fuerza de los recientes movimientos telúricos. Mientras permanecía bajo los escombros, Santana experimentó “lagunas” en su memoria y largos silencios que la hicieron temer lo peor para su comunidad.

Durante su encierro forzado, Santana escuchó a su hermana quejarse y luego, el silencio. En la misma casa estaban también su esposo y su hija, cuyos paraderos desconoce desde entonces.

En medio de la oscuridad total, intentó orientarse al tocar objetos a su alrededor, identificando una taza de café familiar, lo que la llevó a pensar que se encontraba en la cocina.

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Desde su cama de hospital, Marlene Santana, sobreviviente de dos terremotos, relata con una sonrisa el momento en que los rescatistas le dieron agua a través de una manguera, y a la peculiar petición de una Coca Cola. (Infobae Centroamérica/EFE)

El rescate se produjo cuando un equipo internacional, compuesto por rescatistas de El Salvador, llegó al lugar. Santana asegura haber sentido la presencia de un perro rastreador, un indicio de la llegada del grupo salvadoreño, que formó parte de la ayuda internacional desplegada tras la catástrofe.

Los rescatistas le pidieron que se arrastrara para facilitar su extracción, pero la mujer tenía la espalda lastimada y apenas podía moverse. “Me decían: ‘Señora Marlene, haga un sacrificio más’”, relató. Tras pedir unos minutos para recobrar fuerzas, finalmente logró desplazarse hasta alcanzar al personal de rescate.

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La historia de Marlene Santana como muchas otras, de la enorme fuerza de voluntad de cientos de venezolanos que han esperado por horas bajo pesados bloques de cemento, oscuros y fríos, es casi heroica.

Miembros del equipo USAR de El Salvador inspeccionan estructuras colapsadas durante las labores de rescate nocturnas en zonas afectadas por los terremotos en Venezuela (Cortesía Secretaría de Prensa).
Miembros del equipo USAR de El Salvador inspeccionan estructuras colapsadas durante las labores de rescate nocturnas en zonas afectadas por los terremotos en Venezuela (Cortesía Secretaría de Prensa).

La salvadoreña se mantuvo con fe y atenta a las indicaciones de la brigada salvadoreña y se convirtió en uno de los siete rescatados que hasta ahora ha reportado el contingente salvadoreño, historias que rayan en lo milagroso y que conmueven hasta las lágrimas.

Una vez fuera de los escombros, Santana sorprendió al equipo al solicitar una Coca-Cola, gesto que el presidente de El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, mencionó en sus redes sociales.

“Nuestros médicos le explicaron que, por el momento, lo más importante era hidratarla por vía intravenosa para estabilizarla”, detalló el mandatario sobre el procedimiento seguido tras el rescate.

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Actualmente, la sobreviviente se encuentra en un hospital en el este de Caracas, donde recibe atención médica. A pesar de estar a salvo, permanece la incertidumbre sobre el destino de su hija, esposo y hermana, quienes también se encontraban en la vivienda al momento del derrumbe.

AME6002. CARACAS (VENEZUELA), 29/06/2026.- Marlene Santana, sobreviviente de los dos terremotos en Venezuela, posa durante una entrevista con EFE este lunes, en el Hospital Domingo Luciani, en Caracas (Venezuela). EFE/ Raúl Martínez
AME6002. CARACAS (VENEZUELA), 29/06/2026.- Marlene Santana, sobreviviente de los dos terremotos en Venezuela, posa durante una entrevista con EFE este lunes, en el Hospital Domingo Luciani, en Caracas (Venezuela). EFE/ Raúl Martínez

Los recientes terremotos provocaron una situación de emergencia en Venezuela, con un saldo oficial de 1,719 fallecidos y 5,034 personas heridas hasta el momento. Las operaciones de búsqueda y rescate siguen activas, superando ya las 120 horas desde el primer sismo.

La historia de Marlene Santana refleja tanto la devastación causada por el desastre como la coordinación internacional en tareas de salvamento.

El caso también destaca la fortaleza mental de la víctima, quien atribuye a las recomendaciones de su neumonólogo la capacidad para controlar la respiración y soportar la escasez de aire durante el encierro.

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Mientras el país continúa con las labores de búsqueda, el testimonio de Santana se suma a las voces de quienes esperan reunir información sobre sus familiares desaparecidos, en medio de una tragedia que ha dejado una marca profunda en la región de La Guaira.



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Wave of attacks on Iran’s IRGC raises questions about renewed Kurdish insurgency

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Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is facing a new round of violence in the country’s Kurdish-majority west, raising questions about whether a long-simmering Kurdish insurgency is entering a more active phase as fragile talks between Iran and Washington continue, experts say.

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The flare-up matters beyond Iran’s borderlands because Kurdish opposition groups were recently viewed as a potential pressure point against Iran during the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran — and now some Kurdish voices fear they could be left exposed as Washington and Tehran return to fragile diplomacy. 

In recent days, Iranian security forces have been killed in several reported attacks and clashes across western and northwestern Iran. Four Iranian security personnel reportedly were killed and several others injured in two separate armed attacks Tuesday, reported The Jerusalem Post, in an analysis by Seth J. Frantzman, citing Iraq’s Shafaq News. 

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Two Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps members were reportedly killed and two others wounded in what it called an «armed terrorist attack» in Paveh, Iran, a border city in Kermanshah Province, reported Tasnim News, an Iranian outlet close to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. 

In Baneh, Iran, gunmen attacked a police checkpoint, killing two police officers and injuring three other people, including a 3-year-old girl, The Jerusalem Post reported. Clashes had spread to Iran’s Paveh, Marivan and Mahabad, the outlet reported, citing Rojhelat.Info, a Kurdish-focused media account. 

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The Paveh, Iran, attack was claimed by a little-known armed group called Xore Heva, or «Sun of Hope,» which said it carried out the attack in retaliation for Iran’s crackdown on protests sparked by the 2022 death of Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini. The 22-year-old died after being detained by Iran’s morality police for allegedly violating the country’s mandatory hijab rules, The National reported.

The Kurds are one of the largest stateless ethnic groups in the Middle East, with communities spread across Iran, Iraq, Syria and Turkey. 

In Iran, many Kurds live in the country’s mountainous west and northwest, where Kurdish opposition groups have long accused Iran of political repression, executions, forced assimilation and military crackdowns. 

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Iranian authorities, in turn, view armed Kurdish factions as separatist or terrorist threats, especially groups such as PJAK, which has clashed for years with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps along Iran’s western border. The fight is not simply ethnic: It is also political, rooted in Kurdish demands for rights and autonomy, Iran’s fear of separatism and the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’s role in suppressing dissent in border regions.

Jino Victoria Doabi, head of international relation at Hiwa, a Kurdish-led human rights organization, told Fox News Digital the latest clashes could appear to mark more than isolated exchanges.

«It looks like this could be an escalation,» Doabi said, referring to the spread of reported clashes. 

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She said the initial attack appeared to be framed by Kurdish forces as retaliation, but argued the geographic spread suggested the confrontation may continue.

IRANIAN REGIME CRITIC WARNS TRUMP DEAL COULD BE ‘LIFELINE’ FOR REGIME, CLAIMS PEOPLE ARE ‘NERVOUS’

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People hold Kurdish scarves and roses during Nowruz festivities in Saqqez, Iran, on March 15, 2024. (Barbod Khorshidi/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images)

Doabi said Kurdish anger is being driven not only by the latest casualties, but by a broader sense that Iran has been able to target Kurdish areas and opposition groups systemically without consequence.

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«The Kurdish people in Iran are very dissatisfied that the IRGC can attack Kurdish parties and Kurdish fighters and no one reacts,» Doabi said.

The violence comes as Iran is moving forward with a memorandum of understanding with Washington that has drawn criticism from Iranian opposition circles. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei had approved the U.S.–Iran memorandum after receiving assurances that Iran’s rights would be protected, IranWire reported Tuesday. 

Iranian officials have described the deal as having the support of top officials, even as critics inside Iran have attacked negotiators over the arrangement, IranWire also reported. 

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Doabi said Kurdish parties are deeply skeptical of any memorandum of understanding or negotiated arrangement with Iran, arguing that many Kurds believe such a deal would only strengthen the regime.

«Kurdish parties do not believe that making a deal with this regime can help the people in Iran,» Doabi said. «Their position is that a deal would only strengthen the regime.»

IRANIAN REGIME CRITIC WARNS TRUMP DEAL COULD BE ‘LIFELINE’ FOR REGIME, CLAIMS PEOPLE ARE ‘NERVOUS’

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Iran-backed fighters celebrate after the IRGC attack on Israel, in Basra, Iraq, Oct. 1, 2024. (Essam Al-sudani/Reuters)

She added that many Kurds in Iran are «very angry» over the idea of any agreement with Iran, citing decades of repression, arrests and killings in Kurdish areas.

«It is going to be very dangerous for people in Iran, and especially in Kurdistan, Azerbaijan and Baluchistan,» Doabi said, «because that is where much of the resistance and activism is.»

The Kurdish groups now under scrutiny include the Party for a Free Life in Kurdistan, known as PJAK, and its armed wing, the East Kurdistan Defense Units, or YRK. 

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IranWire reported earlier in June that YRK accused Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of launching artillery and mortar attacks against its positions near Marivan, Iran, beginning June 8, prompting what YRK described as a defensive response. Iranian official outlets had not responded to YRK’s casualty claims at the time, according to IranWire.

That regional sensitivity was on display earlier in 2026, when reports emerged that Kurdish opposition groups could open a front against Iran during the U.S.–Israeli war with Iran. 

Israel had been backing plans by Iranian Kurdish militias to seize border areas inside Iran, Reuters reported in March, though the outlet said the fighters would likely need U.S. and Israeli backing to make a significant move. Five long-standing Iranian dissident groups, including PJAK, the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan and the Kurdistan Freedom Party, had formed an alliance, Reuters also reported. 

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During the war, Trump told Reuters that he would be «all for it» if the Kurds wanted to move against Iran and said their objective should be «to win.» But Reuters reported that Kurdish commanders were frustrated by a lack of clear U.S. or Israeli strategy and that Iran’s threats helped keep Kurdish forces from launching an incursion.

Regional reports later claimed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan persuaded Trump to abandon a plan to arm Iranian opposition groups and Iraqi Kurdish groups against Tehran. Israeli media reported June 6 that Erdogan pressed Trump to scrap the proposal after details were allegedly leaked to Turkey by White House officials.

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Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) personnel walk along Enghelab (Revolution) Avenue as an Iranian Kheibar missile is unveiled during the Ela Beit Al-Moghaddas (Al-Aqsa Mosque) military rally in Tehran, Iran, on Nov. 24, 2023. (Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

The latest violence does not prove that a coordinated insurgency is underway. But the reported spread of clashes across multiple Kurdish areas, the involvement claimed by Kurdish militant factions and Kurdish opposition to ongoing U.S.–Iran talks suggest that Iran’s western borderlands could become a new pressure point for Tehran at a moment when the regime is trying to preserve both internal control and fragile diplomatic momentum.

Fox News Digital has reached out to Iranian officials and Kurdish representatives for comment.

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WATCH: Maryland Dems defend ‘big tent’ party as New York socialist surge fuels Dem divide

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Maryland Democrats rejected the idea that New York’s socialist surge in primary victories signals a broader Democratic divide, insisting the races are a reflection of individual districts rather than a national shift as the party looks ahead to the midterm elections.

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«We have a big tent party, that’s what it says,» Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., said when asked what New York’s election results mean for Democrats.

«This is a democracy,» he continued. «You’re going to have lots of perspectives. It’s up to the voters to decide, and they did.»

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The comments come after three far-left candidates won New York Democratic primaries, including two who defeated sitting Democratic incumbents, fueling debate over whether the victories signal growing influence and intraparty division heading into November’s midterms.

«I’m all about new leadership,» Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., told Fox News Digital when asked about New York’s election results.

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Several Maryland Democrats argued the results reflected the unique politics of individual New York districts rather than a broader ideological shift within the Democratic Party.

«I think it’s very reflective of the district,» former U.S. Capitol Police Officer and former Maryland congressional candidate Harry Dunn said.

He continued, «I think we’ve got to be careful applying what happened in New York to everywhere around the country.»

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Former Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn speaks during a protest outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., on June 2, 2026, against President Donald Trump’s IRS settlement and the «Anti-Weaponization Fund.» (Kent Nishimura/AFP via Getty Images)

Other Maryland Democrats stressed the need to respect voters’ choices in their own districts, even when they disagree with the candidates who won.

«I don’t agree with all the things they’ve said,» Rep. Johnny Olszewski, D-Md., said about the socialist candidates in New York. «I don’t agree with all their positions, but I respect what the voters have done in New York. That’s not reflective of the entire country.»

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«Every district determines who they want,» Rep. Kweisi Mfume, D-Md., said. «We may not like it. Some people didn’t want me in. So you have to respect what a district, a congressional district, does. It’s still the rule of the people.»

But as the party strives to regain control in Congress, some moderate Democrats have sought to distance themselves from socialism and the party’s leftward push.

Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville condemned some of the radical views of the newly nominated Democratic candidates, particularly Darializa Avila Chevalier — a member of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) — who ousted five-term Democrat Adriano Espaillat, D-N.Y.

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«She has attacked interracial relationships and the American flag. Lady, I ain’t in the same party as you. I’m sorry,» Carville said in an episode of his podcast, Politics War Room.

He continued, «Everybody’s always said, ‘No, no, we’re a coalition. We’re a big tent. And there’s some – there’s just some s— that I can’t be in the same tent with.»

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Veteran Democratic strategist James Carville claims Trump won’t be president next year. (Emma McIntyre/Getty Images for SCAD)

«I’m a capitalist, not a socialist,» Rep. Thomas Suozzi, D-N.Y., previously told Fox News Digital regarding his views on the New York Democratic candidates. «And I believe in safety, not lawlessness. And I’m proud of America. I’m not ashamed of America.»

Raskin, however, defended the progressivism within his party, arguing the new wave of socialism the Democratic Party is seeing is not consistent with traditional values held by socialists.

«When people say they’re socialists today, I don’t think that they believe in dialectical materialism and dictatorship of the proletariat and classical Marxian socialism,» Raskin said. «I think what they believe is much greater equality and reduction of all the class differences that have grown up under Trump and the plutocrats.»

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Republicans have increasingly pointed to the Democratic Party’s move toward socialist principles as a crux in campaigning to hold both their control of the Senate and razor-thin majority in the House.

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Most Democratic lawmakers seem to be urging their party to focus on gaining control in Congress in the upcoming midterm elections, regardless of their feelings toward some of the ideology fueling new candidates within the party.

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«In a perfect world, everybody should come together — Democratic socialists, moderates,» Dunn said. «Everybody should come together and work together to represent everybody and not just the people who elected them.»

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