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WATCH: Dem senators blame Trump for Iran crisis as GOP urges him to stand firm with Israel
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While Democratic senators are blaming President Donald Trump for the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, Republicans are urging the president to continue standing in support of Israel as it attempts to eliminate Iran’s nuclear weapon capabilities.
This comes as Israel and Iran, two major powers in the Middle East, are locked in a heavy missile war. Israel, a U.S. ally, has been targeting Iranian nuclear facilities with the intent of keeping Iran from utilizing nuclear weapons, something Trump has long advocated.
Following intense speculation that Trump would join the conflict by launching a U.S. strike on Iran, the White House issued a statement from the president in which he said there is a «substantial chance» for renewed negotiations to end the conflict. In the statement, Trump said he would decide which path to take in the next two weeks.
The White House has said that any deal with Iran would have to include a full commitment to not developing nuclear weapons, including no uranium enrichment, a necessary step to developing nuclear weapons. Iran has said it will not accept an agreement with a zero enrichment provision.
SENATE RETURNS AMID CONCERNS ABOUT DEEPER US INVOLVEMENT IN THE IRAN, ISRAEL CONFLICT
While Democratic senators are blaming President Donald Donald Trump for the ongoing Iran-Israel conflict, Republicans are urging the president to continue standing in support of Israel as it attempts to eliminate Iran’s nuclear weapons capabilities. (Getty Images and AP Photo/Alex Brandon and Kayla Bartkowski/Getty Images)
Speaking with Fox News Digital in the halls of the Capitol, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., slammed Trump for pulling the U.S. out of a nuclear agreement of which Iran was a part during his first term.
«The way to keep Iran from having a nuclear weapon is through negotiation,» she said. «We actually had that deal, and Donald Trump threw it out the window.«
«That means we lost our inspectors, we lost the plans that had been made,» she continued.
«Right now, we need more deconfliction in the area. We need to bring down the temperature between Israel and Iran. That’s what’s best for Israel and Iran, it’s what’s best for the region and for the whole world,» said Warren.
IRAN REFUSES ZERO ENRICHMENT AS NUCLEAR TENSIONS ESCALATE
Speaking with Fox News Digital in the halls of the Capitol, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., slammed Trump for pulling the U.S. out of a nuclear agreement of which Iran was a part during his first term. (AP Photo/ Cheryl Senter)
Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., also blamed Trump, saying, «He’s the one who put us out the deal in the first place,» which she said «very much so» contributed to the ongoing conflict.
While he said the U.S. should not be involved in bombing missions or any other military action against Iran, Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., said, «What we should do is continue to provide Israel with all the tools they need to defend themselves.»
«I hope the president will continue to promote a diplomatic solution that we had until he tore it up,» said Kaine.
Meanwhile, Sen. Angus King, I-Maine, who caucuses with the Democrats, told Fox News Digital that the «question is can it be resolved without our involvement.» He said he hopes Iran «will see the light and decide they don’t need to keep developing nuclear fuel.»
BEN HALL CONSIDERS HOW TRUMP’S DECISION ABOUT IRAN COULD ‘CHANGE THE WHOLE MIDDLE EAST’
Smoke rises from the building of Iran’s state-run television after an Israeli strike in Tehran, Iran, Monday, June 16, 2025. (AP Photo)
On the other side of the aisle, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, told Fox News Digital that he believes Trump «standing unshakably with the nation of Israel» is the right move to prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon.
«Israel is being incredibly effective with their military strike against Iran. They’ve taken out the senior military leadership, the leaders who would wage a war have been one after the other after the other surgically taken out by Israel. They are also taking out missile launch sites, and they’re taking out nuclear research sites, the sites where Iran is working to develop a nuclear weapon,» Cruz explained.
«Deterrence is always the key,» said Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Ohio. «This president has been very clear he’s all about peace, and he doesn’t want to use the might of the United States unless we absolutely have to. I believe deterrence is the best foreign policy, because it shows peace through strength.»
That being said, Mullin said Trump has he’s been «very clear for over a decade: In no way are we going to allow the Iranian regime, who is the number one sponsor of terror around the world, to have a nuclear weapon.»
IRAN’S SUPREME LEADER REFUSES TO SURRENDER, MORE BALLISTIC MISSILES FIRED AT ISRAEL
U.S. Sen. Katie Britt (R-AL) speaks on stage on the first day of the Republican National Convention at the Fiserv Forum on July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
«So, we need to be prepared to back up Israel if they’re not able to do the job, then we need to be able to finish it,» he said.
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«Look, he has said this for 10 years. He has said Iran cannot have a nuclear weapon, full stop,» said Sen. Katie Britt, R-Ala. «So, it is not just about [uranium] enrichment, which absolutely should have never happened and cannot happen, but it is also complete and total dismantlement of the nuclear program.»
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Steve Witkoff viajará a Moscú para volver a reunirse con Putin tras las conversaciones con Ucrania en Florida
El enviado especial de Estados Unidos, Steve Witkoff, viajará a Moscú el lunes, dijo una fuente oficial, en momentos en que Washington presiona para terminar la guerra de Rusia contra Ucrania.
La noticia de la visita de Witkoff a Rusia para conversaciones previstas con el presidente Vladimir Putin el martes llega tras negociaciones este domingo entre altos funcionarios de la administración de Trump y una delegación ucraniana en Florida.
Por su parte, el secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos, Marco Rubio, reconoció avances tras una sesión de negociación de cuatro horas con funcionarios de Ucrania, enfocada en delinear las condiciones para poner fin al conflicto con Rusia.
“Tuvimos otra sesión muy productiva, pero aún queda trabajo por hacer”, declaró Rubio ante la prensa al finalizar el encuentro. El diálogo, realizado en Hallandale Beach, se centró en revisar una propuesta base de 28 puntos y en ofrecer garantías de seguridad y prosperidad a Ucrania luego de un eventual alto el fuego.
El jefe negociador ucraniano, Rustem Umerov, resaltó ante Rubio la importancia del respaldo estadounidense y agradeció el apoyo concreto de Washington.
“Estados Unidos nos escucha, nos apoya y está trabajando junto a nosotros”, dijo Umerov. Los demás miembros del equipo ucraniano incluyeron al jefe de las Fuerzas Armadas, Andrii Hnatov, y al asesor presidencial Oleksandr Bevz.
Esta ronda ocurre tras la dimisión de Andrii Yermak, anterior jefe negociador y principal asesor de Volodimir Zelensky, quien renunció después de que su vivienda fue registrada en la investigación por desvío de fondos en el sector energético.
Rubio enfatizó que las discusiones no buscan solo detener la violencia, sino asegurar que Ucrania salga del conflicto con independencia y capacidad de desarrollo sostenido.
“No se trata solo de poner fin a la guerra, sino de condiciones que permitan que Ucrania sea soberana, segura y prospere realmente”, subrayó.
El plan discutido inicialmente preveía que Kiev ceda el control total del Donbas oriental a Rusia, así como límites al tamaño de las fuerzas armadas ucranianas y la exclusión de Ucrania de la OTAN.
Rubio insistió que los negociadores estaban revisando estos puntos polémicos y buscando un equilibrio entre las demandas rusas y las garantías de seguridad y reconstrucción exigidas por Ucrania.
Rubio adelantó que pretendían trabajar los próximos días para solidificar los detalles con la delegación de Vladimir Putin, quien recibirá a Witkoff y posiblemente a Kushner antes de partir hacia India el jueves.
En ese contexto, el presidente Zelensky se pronunció en sus redes sociales destacando “la disposición positiva” de la delegación estadounidense y el enfoque “constructivo” demostrado en las últimas rondas.
“En los próximos días, es factible concretar los pasos para llegar a un fin digno del conflicto”, afirmó Zelensky en su mensaje nocturno del sábado.
Umerov señaló también que el foco sigue siendo la resiliencia y el futuro de Ucrania, más allá del cese de hostilidades.
No obstante, la violencia se mantiene en el campo de batalla. Durante la madrugada del domingo, ataques con drones y misiles rusos mataron al menos a tres personas en Kiev, mientras un dron impactó un edificio residencial en Vyshhorod, al norte de la capital, dejando un muerto y casi veinte heridos.
Este mismo fin de semana, Ucrania reclamó un ataque exitoso contra un terminal petrolero ruso en Novorossiysk, lo que generó una advertencia diplomática de Kazajistán exigiendo que se detengan futuros ataques a instalaciones estratégicas.
Zelensky recalcó en su mensaje diario que Rusia lanza “cientos de drones y misiles cada semana contra la población civil”, por lo que reclamó más defensas antiaéreas y la continuidad del esfuerzo diplomático.
“Necesitamos soluciones reales, fiables, que ayuden a terminar la guerra”, insistió.
La próxima etapa de estas negociaciones incluirá contactos directos con Moscú y la revisión de cualquier nuevo borrador propuesto, en busca de un equilibrio viable entre las concesiones territoriales exigidas por Rusia y las garantías internacionales de seguridad y soberanía reclamadas por Ucrania.
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In the wake of last year’s tumultuous presidential election, which exhausted many Americans, it was expected to be quiet on the 2025 campaign trail.
But with President Donald Trump back in the White House and Democrats itching to rebound after last year’s ballot box setbacks, 2025’s off-year elections were anything but sedate.
Here are five of the biggest moments that shaped the campaign trail.
5. Democrats overperform in special elections
Just eight days into Trump’s second term in the White House, demoralized Democrats had something to cheer about.
SETTING THE STAGE: WHAT THE 2025 ELECTIONS SIGNAL FOR NEXT YEAR’S MIDTERM SHOWDOWNS
President Donald Trump was inaugurated for a second term in the White House on Jan. 20, 2025, at the U.S. Capitol in Washington D.C. (Morray Gash/AFP via Getty Images)
Democrat Mike Zimmer defeated Republican Katie Whittington in a special state Senate election in Iowa, flipping a Republican-controlled vacant seat in a district that Trump had carried by 21 points less than three months earlier.
Zimmer’s victory triggered a wave of Democrats overperforming in special elections and regularly scheduled off-year ballot box contests.
In Iowa, Democrats in August flipped another Republican-held seat in a state Senate special election, breaking the GOP’s supermajority in the upper chamber for the first time in three years.
«Since the president was inaugurated back in January, there’s been 45 elections on the ballot. Democrats have overperformed in all of them to the tune of about 16 percentage points on average,» Democratic National Committee chair Ken Martin touted in a Fox News Digital interview days ahead of the 2025 elections.
4. Inflation persists, making affordability issue No. 1 on the campaign trail
It was the issue that boosted Trump and Republicans in the 2024 elections, as they won back the White House and Senate majority and kept control of the House.
But a year later, the economy, and everyday expenses in particular, are working against the president and his party in the 2025 elections.
FOX NEWS POLL: VOTERS SAY WHITE HOUSE IS DOING MORE HARM THAN GOOD ON ECONOMY
Democrats, with an across-the-board focus on affordability, enjoyed sweeping success at the ballot box earlier this month, with double-digit victories in the gubernatorial showdowns in blue-leaning but competitive New Jersey and Virginia, as well as major victories in high-profile contests in battlegrounds Georgia and Pennsylvania and solidly blue New York City and California.
Democratic Rep. Mikie Sherrill votes on Election Day, in Montclair, New Jersey, on Nov. 4, 2025. (Paul Steinhauser/Fox News)
«Voters are remarkably consistent in their priorities: the economy, the economy, the economy,» noted Wayne Lesperance, a veteran political scientist and president of New England College.
«When you win an election, voters expect you are going to do something to address those concerns and the reality is that the questions of affordability remain unchanged in their importance to the everyday voter.»
3. Jay Jones text messages revealed, rocking the Virginia elections
Virginia Democrats were cruising toward convincing victories in the commonwealth’s statewide elections when a scandal sent shockwaves up and down the ballot.
Democratic attorney general nominee Jay Jones instantly went into crisis mode after controversial texts were first reported earlier by the National Review in early October.
Jay Jones addresses supporters after winning the Democratic nomination for Virginia attorney general as wife Mavis Jones looks on in Norfolk, on June 17, 2025. (Trevor Metcalfe/The Virginian-Pilot/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
Jones acknowledged and apologized for texts he sent in 2022, when he compared then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert to mass murderers Adolf Hitler and Pol Pot, adding that if he was given two bullets, he would use both against the GOP lawmaker to shoot him in the head.
But Jones faced a chorus of calls from Republicans to drop out of the race.
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And the GOP leveraged the explosive revelations up the ballot, forcing Democratic Party nominee, former Rep. Abigail Spanberger, back on defense in a campaign where she was seen as the frontrunner against Republican rival Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears.
Earle-Sears didn’t waste an opportunity to link Spanberger to Jones. And during last month’s chaotic and only gubernatorial debate, where Earle-Sears repeatedly interrupted Spanberger, the GOP gubernatorial nominee called on her Democratic rival to tell Jones to end his attorney general bid.
«The comments that Jay Jones made are absolutely abhorrent,» Spanberger said at the debate. But she neither affirmed nor pulled back her support of Jones.
While the scandal grabbed national headlines, in the end it didn’t slow down the Democrats, as Spanberger crushed Earle-Sears by 15 points. Democrats won the separate election for lieutenant governor by 11 points and Jones even pulled off a 6-point victory over Republican incumbent Jason Miyares.
2. Trump urges Texas to redistrict
Aiming to prevent what happened during his first term in the White House when Democrats reclaimed the House majority in the 2018 midterm elections, Trump in June first floated the idea of rare but not unheard of mid-decade congressional redistricting.
The mission was simple: redraw congressional district maps in red states to pad the GOP’s razor-thin House majority to keep control of the chamber in the 2026 midterms, when the party in power traditionally faces political headwinds and loses seats.
Trump’s first target: Texas.
A month later, when asked by reporters about his plan to add Republican-leaning House seats across the country, the president said, «Texas will be the biggest one. And that’ll be five.»
The push by Trump and his political team triggered a high-stakes redistricting showdown with Democrats to shape the 2026 midterm landscape in the fight for the House majority.
Republican Gov. Greg Abbott of Texas called a special session of the GOP-dominated state legislature to pass the new map.
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But Democratic state lawmakers, who broke quorum for two weeks as they fled Texas in a bid to delay the passage of the redistricting bill, energized Democrats across the country.
Among those leading the fight against Trump’s redistricting was Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom of California.
Gov. Gavin Newsom speaks during an election night press conference at a California Democratic Party office on Nov. 4, 2025, in Sacramento. (Godofredo A. Vásquez/AP Photo)
California voters earlier this month overwhelmingly passed Proposition 50, a ballot initiative which will temporarily sidetrack the left-leaning state’s nonpartisan redistricting commission and return the power to draw the congressional maps to the Democratic-dominated legislature.
That is expected to result in five more Democratic-leaning congressional districts in California, which aimed to counter the move by Texas to redraw their maps.
Meanwhile, an opinion by two federal judges in Texas this month delivered a blow to Trump and Republicans, by ruling that the state can’t use the newly drawn map in next year’s elections. Texas Republicans say they’ll appeal the ruling to the Supreme Court.
But the fight has spread beyond Texas and California.
Right-tilting Missouri, North Carolina and Ohio have drawn new maps as part of the president’s push. And red-leaning Indiana, Florida and Kansas are also mulling redrawing their maps.
«We must keep the Majority at all costs,» Trump wrote on social media this month.
Illinois and Maryland, two blue states, and Virginia, where Democrats control the legislature, are also taking steps or seriously considering redistricting.
And in a blow to Republicans, a Utah district judge this month rejected a congressional district map drawn up by the state’s GOP-dominated legislature and instead approved an alternate that will create a Democratic-leaning district ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
1. Mamdani wins NYC mayoral primary
Zohran Mamdani’s convincing June 24 victory in New York City’s Democratic Party mayoral primary was the political earthquake that rocked the nation’s most populous city and sent powerful shockwaves across the country.
The capturing of the Democratic nomination by the now-34-year-old socialist state lawmaker over frontrunner former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and nine other candidates propelled Mamdani to this month’s general election victory.
Zohran Mamdani speaks to supporters during a primary election night gathering on June 24, 2025, in the Queens borough of New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)
While Mamdani’s 9-point general election victory is a shot in the arm for the rise of the socialist movement as it battles moderate Democrats for the future of the party, it also appears to be the political gift that keeps on giving for Republicans, as they aim to paint all Democrats as far-left radicals.
The National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) was one of the first out of the gate to capitalize on the leftward lurch, firing off an email release minutes after Mamdani’s primary victory, arguing that «every vulnerable House Democrat will own him, and every Democrat running in a primary will fear him.»
And this month, immediately after Mamdani became mayor-elect, the NRCC claimed «the new face of the Democrat Party just dropped, and it’s straight out of a socialist nightmare.»
President Donald Trump met with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani, in the Oval Office at the White House, on Nov. 21, 2025. (Jim Watson/AFP via Getty Images)
But Trump’s very chummy meeting with Mamdani recently at the White House seemed to undercut the GOP strategy to use the mayor-elect as a human cudgel.
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Democrats insist that the effort to link Mamdani is a distraction from Republicans’ inability to deal with the affordability issue.
«Republican operatives in D.C. know they can’t win on the issues, so we’re seeing them melt down in real time, resorting to ineffective boogeyman attacks. It’s embarrassing,» the rival Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee charged.
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