Midterms Rebuke Trump and Biden on Foreign Policy — SkimNews
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- Republican Party suffered a historic midterm defeat that the source attributes to the Iran war and the cost-of-living crisis it produced; Trump’s party also lost its congressional majority.
- Trump started a major war with Iran despite promising to end “forever wars”; the article says he chose war over an available diplomatic deal after listening to Benjamin Netanyahu.
- Republican Party voters and Democratic voters rejected U.S.-Israel policy in multiple midterm contests, favoring national interests and ending military aid to Israel.
- Biden deferred to Benjamin Netanyahu and funded and enabled what the source calls a genocide in Gaza; the article links Democrats’ 2024 defeat over that policy to Trump’s return to the White House.
- YouGov–IMEU Policy Project found in January 2025 that a plurality of 2020 Biden voters who stayed home in 2024 did so because of Democrats’ Gaza policy; Axios reported a similar conclusion from Democrats’ internal election autopsy.
- Abdul El-Sayed was elected to the Senate in Michigan and was cheered for accusing Israel of genocide and apartheid, while Texas voters elected a candidate who rejected AIPAC funding and called Gaza’s situation sickening.
- Congress faces a December 11 deadline to replace the continuing resolution, with the source urging lawmakers to bar any new Iran-war funding in the next stopgap.
Why it matters: Congress faces a December 11 deadline to avert a shutdown, and the source says any replacement should withhold new Iran-war funding. Republicans’ loss of their congressional majority and the cross-party rejection of U.S.-Israel policy leave lawmakers accountable to voters who backed restraint, making war funding and military aid an immediate test of the promised shift.
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