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Congressional candidate Jim Desmond says he ‘served to protect Americans, not write off American cities’A Republican candidate in San Diego has criticized Donald Trump after the US president suggested Iran could “take out” the city or Los Angeles.Trump has faced a chorus of condemnation from Democratic leaders in California after his comments at a rally in Nebraska on Monday night. Republicans have largely remained silent. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/06/republican-trump-iran-los-angeles-san-diego" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer ugc" target="_blank">Continue reading...</a>

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California officials criticized President Trump after he appeared to suggest Iran could “take out” L.A. and San Diego. Communications director Steven Cheung said Trump was saying cities “would have been threatened if a nuclear Iran hadn’t been stopped.”

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