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Tras la reunión con Putin, Trump dice que ahora «depende de Zelenski» alcanzar un acuerdo sobre Ucrania

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Tras la cumbre histórica con Vladimir Putin en Alaska, Donald Trump afirmó que ahora «depende» de Volodimir Zelenski avanzar para lograr un acuerdo que ponga fin a la guerra en Ucrania.

«Ahora depende realmente del presidente Zelenski lograrlo. Y también diría que las naciones europeas tienen que involucrarse un poco, pero depende de Zelenski», respondió el presidente de Estados Unidos, en diálogo con Fox News.

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El líder de la Casa Blanca y el mandatario ruso se fueron de Alaska sin revelar un plan para ponerle punto final a la guerra o alcanzar un alto el fuego en Ucrania, tras una cumbre amistosa y, según ellos, «productiva».

Trump aseguró a periodistas que quedan «muy pocos» asuntos por resolver para encontrar una solución a la contienda bélica desencadenada hace más de tres años por la invasión rusa. «Uno de ellos es probablemente el más importante», añadió sin especificar cuál.

«No lo hemos logrado, pero tenemos muchas posibilidades de conseguirlo», dijo el republicano, que partió rumbo a Washington tras haber pasado seis horas en Alaska, las mismas que Putin, quien también se fue.

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Trump y Putin anunciaron avances para terminar con la guerra en Ucrania, pero no hubo un acuerdo por la paz. Foto: EFE

El multimillonario de 79 años se había fijado el objetivo de organizar rápidamente una cumbre tripartita con Putin y Zelenski, y garantizar un alto el fuego.

No mencionó lo uno ni lo otro al final del encuentro con Putin, pero en una entrevista en Fox News grabada justo después Trump declaró que alcanzar un acuerdo «depende realmente del presidente Zelenski».

El tono del presidente estadounidense con Putin distó mucho del de antes de la reunión, cuando amenazó con irse en pocos minutos si no veía avances o aseguró que el jefe del Kremlin no iba a «jugar» con él.

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Sin dar mayores detalles de la reunión, Putin y Trump le hablaron a la prensa, pero no recibieron preguntas. Foto: EFESin dar mayores detalles de la reunión, Putin y Trump le hablaron a la prensa, pero no recibieron preguntas. Foto: EFE

Putin dijo, por su parte, que espera que «el entendimiento alcanzado allane el camino hacia la paz en Ucrania». Tampoco dio detalles.

Afirmó que espera que «Kiev y las capitales europeas perciban todo esto de forma constructiva y no creen obstáculos ni intenten interrumpir el progreso emergente mediante provocaciones o intrigas entre bastidores».

Ambos habían prometido una rueda de prensa tras unas tres horas de conversación en la base militar de Elmendorf-Richardson, pero solo se dieron un apretón de manos al terminar sus discursos y se marcharon sin responder a los periodistas que los bombardeaban con preguntas.

Trump aseguró no obstante que llamará de inmediato a los dirigentes de la OTAN y a Zelenski «para hablar sobre la reunión» que, según él, fue «muy productiva» y, según Putin, «constructiva».

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También afirmó que podría volver a ver al presidente ruso «muy pronto», a lo que Putin respondió, en inglés, «la próxima vez en Moscú». El republicano le contestó diciendo que se puede imaginar «que eso suceda». Ambos líderes hablaron con un telón de fondo azul en el que se leía «En busca de la paz».

Esta cumbre comenzó con una coreografía cuidada al milímetro para dar la bienvenida a Putin a una cita que le permitió romper el aislamiento occidental por la guerra. Trump incluso aplaudió brevemente cuando su par ruso se dirigía hacia él en la pista.

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Lo que siguió fueron apretones de manos, sonrisas y gestos de cortesía. No faltaron los aviones de combate, unos sobrevolando el lugar y otros alineados cerca de la alfombra roja. Putin incluso se subió al vehículo blindado de Trump, «La Bestia», donde hablaron a solas.

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Así estaba previsto que transcurriera todo el encuentro, con un cara a cara a través solo de intérpretes, pero finalmente ambos estuvieron acompañados: Trump por su jefe de la diplomacia Marco Rubio y el enviado especial para Rusia Steve Witkoff, y Putin por su canciller Serguéi Lavrov y el consejero diplomático Yuri Ushakov.

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Lo que temían Ucrania y los europeos

El gran protagonista ausente, el presidente ucraniano, declaró que «contaba» con Trump para poner fin al conflicto.

Los soldados rusos «siguen matando el día de las negociaciones», lamentó Zelenski, aunque su ejército anunció haber recuperado seis pueblos conquistados por Rusia en los últimos días.

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El presidente ucraniano y los líderes europeos tienen que esperar a que el impredecible presidente estadounidense les informe del contenido de su reunión, tal como prometió. Antes de la reunión en Alaska, las posturas de ambos beligerantes eran irreconciliables.

Rusia exige que Ucrania ceda cuatro regiones parcialmente ocupadas (Donetsk, Lugansk, Zaporiyia y Jersón), además de Crimea, anexionada en 2014, y que renuncie al suministro de armas occidentales y a adherirse a la OTAN.

Para Kiev esto es inaceptable. Exige un alto el fuego incondicional e inmediato, así como garantías de seguridad futuras.

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Trump, quien desde la invasión rusa de Ucrania ha generado antagonismo entre ambos beligerantes, lleva tiempo hablando de «concesiones mutuas» a nivel territorial.

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Elecciones en Perú: ¿Por qué es posible (otra vez) un resultado sorpresa?

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Ante 35 candidatos y aproximadamente un tercio de los peruanos indecisos o sin apoyar a nadie, podría surgir un contendiente sorpresa en los últimos días antes de la votación del 12 de abril.

Los conservadores Rafael López Aliaga y Keiko Fujimori llevan semanas estancados en un empate técnico, cada uno con alrededor del 10% al 12% de apoyo, principalmente de votantes en la capital, Lima, según las encuestas más recientes.

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Pero, en última instancia, serán las regiones fuera de la capital, donde vive el 70% de los 34 millones de habitantes del país, las que marcarán la mayor diferencia en el resultado de las elecciones.

“Hay así un voto sistemáticamente anti establishment, antilimeño, sobre todo en las zonas entre más pobres y alejadas del país”, dijo el analista político Gonzalo Banda.

Estas regiones “van a decidir mucho el voto”, añadió, señalando que son las más difíciles de encuestar y suelen tener el mayor porcentaje de votantes indecisos en un país donde las elecciones generalmente se resuelven en las últimas semanas.

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El caso de 2021

Eso fue lo que ocurrió en las últimas elecciones de 2021, aunque ha habido cuatro presidentes entretanto debido a la constante inestabilidad política del país.

El apoyo al candidato de extrema izquierda Pedro Castillo aumentó drásticamente en la recta final de la campaña, impulsada por los votantes de los Andes y del sur de Perú, quienes se sintieron atraídos por sus promesas de reformar la Constitución y redistribuir la riqueza proveniente de la minería, principal sector de exportación de Perú y principal fuente de inversión extranjera.

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Castillo apenas figuraba en las encuestas dos semanas antes de la primera ronda de las elecciones.

Luego ganó la segunda vuelta contra Keiko Fujimori, que ha llegado tres veces a las segundas rondas, arrasando en los distritos donde hay minas clave. En Chumbivilcas, cerca de la enorme mina de cobre Las Bambas de MMG Ltd., Castillo recibió más del 95% de los votos. Para ganar directamente, un candidato necesita al menos el 50% del total de votos.

Keiko Fujimori, de Fuerza Popular. Foto: Bloomberg

Los proyectos políticos que desafían al sistema, como el de Castillo, han obtenido el apoyo de los votantes de las regiones del sur y mineras, lo que demuestra una división regional en las elecciones peruanas de las últimas dos décadas, dijo Banda, oriundo de la ciudad sureña de Arequipa.

Como presidente, Castillo nunca implementó esas propuestas, aunque durante la campaña inquietaron a la élite empresarial y política del país, rico en minerales, lo que provocó una fuga de capitales histórica de aproximadamente US$16.000 millones, o más del 7% del PBI de Perú en ese momento.

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En estas elecciones, la mayoría de los peruanos están preocupados por el aumento de la delincuencia, la corrupción, la inestabilidad política y el desempleo.

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Ningún candidato lidera en todas las regiones de Perú. Sin embargo, en diferentes partes del país se empieza a perfilar el favorito.

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El sur de Perú se está convirtiendo en un bastión del economista de izquierda Alfonso López-Chau, según la encuesta más reciente de Ipsos para Perú21.

López-Chau, el exdirector del banco central bajo el mandato de Julio Velarde, captó la atención nacional durante las protestas de finales de 2022, cuando, como rector de la Universidad Nacional de Ingeniería, abrió el campus a jóvenes que habían viajado a Lima desde los Andes del sur.

Estos jóvenes exigían elecciones anticipadas tras la destitución de Castillo por intentar disolver el Congreso y gobernar por decreto.

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El candidato Roberto Sánchez, del partido Juntos por el Perú. Foto: EFE

El legado del expresidente de extrema izquierda, que actualmente cumple una condena en prisión por su intento de acaparar el poder, está siendo reivindicado por el candidato Roberto Sánchez, quien fue uno de sus ministros más leales.

Sánchez, cuyo apoyo se concentra principalmente en las zonas rurales según las encuestas, impulsa una nueva Constitución para dar voz a las comunidades marginadas del país. Ha propuesto utilizar las reservas internacionales del banco central para invertir en salud y educación, y renegociar los acuerdos de libre comercio.

En el debate presidencial de la semana pasada, Sánchez lució el sombrero tradicional del norte del Perú, que se convirtió en el sello distintivo de Castillo.

El congresista ha sido uno de los que más rápido ha ascendido en las últimas semanas, al igual que el centrista Jorge Nieto. El sociólogo y exministro de Defensa promete transformar Perú en una fuente de crecimiento más equitativo, pasando de un modelo extractivo a uno diversificado e inclusivo.

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Su apoyo, si bien actualmente está más disperso, proviene principalmente de zonas urbanas, incluyendo Lima.

Aun así, tanto Sánchez como Nieto están empatados con apenas un 5%, luchando por el tercer puesto junto con López-Chau y el humorista Carlos Álvarez, quien goza de mayor popularidad en el norte de Perú, según las encuestas. Tras tres décadas en la televisión, Álvarez se presenta como un candidato antisistema, prometiendo medidas firmes contra la delincuencia.

El voto de las regiones, la clave

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Quien logre movilizar el voto de las regiones probablemente pasará a la segunda vuelta, afirmó el politólogo José Incio, profesor de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú. “Yo creo que hay todavía espacio para que se alineen las cosas”, añadió.

La historia reciente de Perú sugiere que solo uno de los dos, Fujimori o López Aliaga, tiene probabilidades de llegar a la segunda vuelta.

Rafael López Aliaga. Foto: EFE

“Es muy difícil que un candidato blanco, pituco pegue en las regiones andinas”, dijo Banda.

Fuera de Lima, y entre los votantes de la clase trabajadora, le va mejor a la hija del expresidente Alberto Fujimori que al exalcalde López Aliaga. Las encuestas muestran que solo ganaría en la capital, respaldado principalmente por los sectores más ricos del país.

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En Perú, ser “primero con mucha antelación no te conviene”, dijo Incio. “Es el último que logre generar la expectativa, y ya no queda mucho tiempo como para buscar otra opción. Ese es el que va a capitalizar”.

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Israeli paramedic delivers baby, rushes it to bomb shelter during Iran attack

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Dr. Gal Rosen is an Israeli paramedic who has saved lives under the threat of missile attacks.

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Racing from emergency to emergency, heart pounding, but calm under fire — «don’t think, just act.»

He said he lost his mother when he was a child at the hands of a murderous terrorist. He saved lives as an army paramedic, but he continues to do it now as a civilian — defiantly choosing to live in Israel and work at Tel Aviv’s Magen David Adom (MDA) while under threat and emergencies from multiple-front wars.

He saves lives in the «dark» of war. He sees lives go, sometimes after making difficult split-second decisions.

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Dr. Gal Rosen, a Tel Aviv paramedic, has delivered five babies in his time, but Nikola’s baby boy was his first born under the stress of missile attack and blaring Iron Dome sirens. (Viri Acoca / Photo Provided)

«We need to choose sometimes,» he says, speaking to Fox News Digital during a rare moment off between emergencies. «And this is hard

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But, today, he is sharing a story of «light’: a stark contrast from the stories he usually refuses to share with his family to spare them the horrifying realities of war — even if they live those themselves.

Last Thursday, Rosen delivered a healthy baby boy into the world and, in sudden threat of a missile attack and blaring sirens, carried that son away from the mother in the ambulance as he and the father raced to reach a bomb shelter.

This is his fifth emergency delivery of a newborn as a paramedic. It was his first under the threat of a missile attack and blaring sirens.

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«It was so surrealistic situation, in my opinion, never happened to me, something like this,» he said, able to smile about the gravity of it all one week later, after finally finding sleep and time to reflect.

«This is an amazing thing to share at home,» Rosen said. «Most of my stories are not like this, most of our stories I share are really hard things for my family to hear. This is why, usually, I’m not sharing with my family stories from my work: ‘Sorry, I’m not doing it.’

«Car accidents or about the CPRs or about really difficult situations that I had to deal with.»

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Just two days after bringing one life into the world, he saw five go.

«I had, like last Saturday, five cases of death in the shift,» he said. «I don’t want to get home and tell about it in my family, right? But this story is amazing.

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MDA Dr. Gal Rosen smiles, telling his remarkable story of ‘light’ as a paramedic delivering a newborn baby under the ‘dark’ of war and under the stress of a missile interception with sirens blaring. (Fox News Original)

«I went to my grandma,» he continued, «and said, ‘You have to hear it.’

«She was so proud of me and also my family and my father and my friends and my partner. Of course, this is a really nice story to tell to everyone.«

The call came around 6:30 a.m. local Tel Aviv time on a Thursday morning: a woman was in labor, getting an assist on emergency delivery over the phone as if it was a movie.

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But this was real life, a new life, and war.

By the time the MDA paramedic team arrived, the baby was still inside and the husband was helping his wife through the final moments of delivery. Dr. Rosen stepped in for the last few minutes and helped safely deliver the boy.

Then came the alert.

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Within moments, a warning sounded that a missile attack on Tel Aviv was expected in about 10 minutes. The paramedic suddenly had to balance the urgency of a wartime emergency with the delicate, critical first steps of childbirth.

He quickly placed the newborn on the mother’s chest for skin-to-skin contact, a key step for bonding and early development. He had the father cut the umbilical cord and helped the mother nurse the baby for the first time.

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«I tried to do something as close as possible to reality for them,» he said, wanting to preserve the intimacy of a normal birth even though they were far from a hospital delivery room.

With the help of the father and her team, he then moved the family into the building’s shelter. There, in the middle of blaring alarms and the sounds of missile interceptions overhead, relatives from the apartment building — a grandmother, an aunt and others — came downstairs and saw the baby for the first time.

«It was the first time they met the baby, while there were alarms,» he said. 

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«Adrenaline» and former army paramedic instinct took over.

«I put the helmet, I put the vest and everything, I took the baby, and we stopped by the side and I ran with the baby to a public shelter,» he recalled. «So me and the father, we’re running together, I’m taking the baby with me, running to a shelter and just a random building and there was no shelter there.

«‘OK, this is not good.’ We need to go out.

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«And we’re going out. There is still alarms; I know that we have like maybe 20 seconds left, going to another building, and then we’re getting into a public shelter. There is 50 people there in the shelter and they closed the door. We were still there standing in the shelter, so I gave the father the baby.

«I didn’t want the idea for the father also — you know in the future — to think about the situation that a stranger held his baby while there is a missile attack.«

In the shelter, with the postpartum mother still in the ambulance under the Iron Dome, the unmistakable sound of war came with a shock.

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«We also heard the interception with the Iron Dome,» Rosen said.

The sound, he said, was impossible to ignore: «a boom,» followed by a shock wave you could feel.

The air was vibrating.

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The grateful father and mother, identified by MDA as Nikola and Violet, said the experience was frightening but that the emergency team helped keep them calm.

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«It wasn’t a simple experience,» they wrote in a joint statement, preferring to keep privacy but permitting Dr. Rosen to share the war story out of praise and thankfulness.

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«The labor started at home, and just minutes after the MDA team delivered the baby, the siren caught us, and we went down to a shelter. The team functioned amazingly, calmed us, and treated us in the best possible way. This isn’t the ideal experience, but we’re happy everything ended safely, and we’re grateful to the team who helped us so much.»

In that cramped shelter of about 50 huddling Israelis, surrounded by strangers and the threat of falling missiles, the room broke into applause. People congratulated the father and shouted «Mazal tov.»

Mother was still in the ambulance with members of the MDA team, still at risk postpartum, as the Iron Dome was busting missiles overhead.

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«And after 10 minutes that we sat there, we went out, and we walked in the street with a baby, 30 minutes old, crossing the intersection together, going to the ambulance,» Rosen said. «They put a helmet on her and a vest on the mother, and one of my teammates stayed with her, because she couldn’t come to the shelter. It was too much time, too risky for her.

«And, you know, in these moments, I didn’t think so much. So I just act.

«I realized that it would be better to protect the son; it would better to go to find a shelter. And we didn’t think about the idea that maybe we’ll be in alarms, because we were in the situation, we were at the moment, we’re with the family, with the delivery, with everything, and you can’t imagine something like this — even though it’s Israel, and now we can actually imagine everything.

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«Still, it was really, really, really exciting — excitement and happiness – and a good thing because most of our days right now are dark

Despite losing his mother to a murderous terrorist and living under the threat of multiple-front wars and shrieking Iron Dome sirens and missile attacks, Rosen would choose no other life.

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Magen David Adom (MDA) emergency teams respond to the scene of Iranian missile barrages in Tel Aviv, Israel on Friday, June 13, 2025. (Magen David Adom (MDA))

«My mother was murdered in a terror attack when I was a kid, when I was a child, and to choose to still be here with my family, to live here: This is our home and to choose, going to a different path, not hate.

«I will save lives, and I will do my best to help other families going through these situations, and I will do my best to make sure there are no other families that will need to suffer from a loss.

«So I think this is the mentality of Israelis in general. But still, see, this is one of the only places in the world that people are getting rescued by a flight to come back to Israel.

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«In a war,» he deadpanned.

But, with everything happening under the stress of war, Rosen kept the calm, precision and resolve of an army paramedic, knowing the best medicine for a baby born under stress is skin-to-skin and mother’s milk.

«I learned in med school, I learned these two things are the most important: Put the baby on the skin, give them the bond, help her to nurse,» he said. «It also can help the mother a lot when she nursing the baby. It’s also helping with postpartum bleeding. And a lot of things.

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«So this situation, it’s hard to do when we are in this missile attack.»

But all is well that ended well and — in the case of Nikola and Violet’s newborn — began as well as could be under the circumstances.

«I was so excited I couldn’t sleep for — like the delivery, it was something like 17 hours into my shift,» he recalled. «So I worked 16 hours. It was after 17 hours shift.

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«Now and after 17 hours shift, I went back home, I tried to sleep, I couldn’t sleep, and then I had to go to another shift. So I was awake for at least 24 hours.«

One week later, the adrenaline and excitement have not worn off. And the baby boy, mother, father and MDA paramedic team live on to tell an all-timer.

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FLASHBACK: Dem senate candidate was critical vote in confirming judge who tied voter ID to ‘White supremacy’

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As the debate on voter ID and the SAVE America Act rages on in the Senate, a former Democratic senator from Ohio, Sherrod Brown, is facing heat from his political opponents as he runs to return to the Senate over his votes and positions on the election integrity issue.

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«You know, it’s inconsistent to denounce White supremacy but not repudiate voter ID laws, to not repudiate the Muslim ban, to not repudiate ‘the wall,’» Natasha Merle, then nominee for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York, said during a 2017 podcast, Fox News Digital reported during her confirmation process in 2022.

«These are all things that support and are grounded in White supremacy. The voter ID bills disproportionately impact Black and Brown voters. They disproportionately prevent Black and Latino voters from voting. So you cannot say you are not for White supremacy and at the same time be for disenfranchising Black and Latino voters.»

Additionally, Merle appeared to compare today’s voter ID laws to «dogs and whips» being used to control minority populations in a 2020 speech to college students on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

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Former Sen. Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, during a campaign event at the Steubenville City Building in Steubenville, Ohio, on Friday, Oct. 11, 2024.  (Justin Merriman/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

«We cannot lose sight of states such as Alabama, Texas, Florida that have created new barriers to make voting harder, including by eliminating early voting, passing restrictive voter ID laws, and purging legal voters from their rolls — all of this happening with the implicit and sometimes explicit support of the Justice Department,» Merle said. 

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Despite these comments, Merle was confirmed as a federal judge in 2023 by a 1-vote margin with the support of then-Ohio Democratic Sen. Sherrod Brown, who is currently running a campaign to return to the Senate after losing his seat in 2024, and no Republican support.

«That’s a shocking, radical point of view,» Ohio GOP incumbent Sen. Jon Husted, who Brown is trying to unseat, told Fox News Digital about Merle’s comments. «I didn’t really know much about that particular judge, but I’m shocked to learn those facts. I’ll just say this, when you look at the polling data, 60 to 70% of African-American and Hispanic voters support the idea of voter ID.»

Democrat opposition to voter ID was brought to the forefront of the news cycle earlier this month when Husted, during the debate about the SAVE America Act, attempted to pass a standalone voter ID bill through unanimous consent in a move to test Democratic claims they don’t oppose voter ID but rather take issue with other measures of the bill.

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The measure would have enacted a nationwide voter ID requirement, though 36 states already have similar rules on the books. The Ohio Republican said citizens could use a state-issued driver’s license, a U.S. passport or valid military or tribal ID to meet the requirement.

Democrats blocked the measure on the Senate floor. 

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Senator Jon Husted, a Republican from Ohio, during a Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions Committee confirmation hearing in Washington, D.C., on Thursday, Feb. 13, 2025.  (Getty Images)

«I gave them a simple, clean, straightforward proposal, and then they blocked it, and then when we took it to a roll call vote, every single Democrat voted against it, thus proving that they were unwilling to put their words into action when given the choice,» Husted said, adding that Democrats are «controlled» by the «radical left» wing of the party. 

Shortly after the showdown, Brown called voter ID, which is utilized in Ohio, one of the «unnecessary barriers that threaten the ability of hardworking Ohioans to vote early, mail in their ballots, or vote on Election Day.»

Husted told Fox News Digital that Brown «consistently voted in lockstep with the radical left of his party, which are out of touch with how people in Ohio live their lives on a daily basis.»

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«During the Biden years, Sherrod Brown and Democrats let over 10 million people into this country, many of them not properly vetted, many of them not here legally, many of those who have the ability to get on voter rules in states where they don’t properly maintain voter rules,» Husted said. «Because understand, in places like California, you can vote simply with a signature. All you have to do is come up with a signature that looks close to the person who’s properly registered and you can cast a ballot. That’s the kind of stuff we’re trying to solve.»

A Fox News poll released in September 2025 found that 84% of registered voters said photo ID should be required to prove citizenship before voting.

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Natasha C. Merle, nominee to be U.S. District Judge for the Eastern District of New York, testifies during her Senate Judiciary Committee confirmation hearing on judicial nominations in the Dirksen Building on Wednesday, April 27, 2022. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Ohio’s current Secretary of State, Republican Frank LaRose, also called out Brown’s «unnecessary barrier comment» in a post on X saying, «Americans support photo ID, and Ohio proves it works.»

Husted, who previously served as Ohio’s secretary of state, told Fox News Digital that Democrat claims of racial «disenfranchisement» haven’t occurred in his state with voter ID.

«In the last election, we had the second-highest turnout in a presidential election of the last four presidential elections,» Husted said. «It clearly doesn’t suppress voters and I’m highly confident that Hispanic and African American voters are just as capable of using a photo ID as anyone else.»

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Fox News Digital reached out to Brown’s campaign for comment.

Fox News Digital’s Alex Miller and Adam Pack contributed to this report.

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