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En el volátil ecosistema político actual, la próxima elección presidencial de Estados Unidos parece estar a varias eternidades de distancia. Aunque el calendario marca una fecha, solo un tonto haría el intento de predecir la forma de la conversación política que tendremos dentro de tres años, y menos aún en unos meses en la impredecible era de Trump.

Pero sí sabemos que la próxima elección ofrecerá a los estadounidenses nuevas opciones tanto a la derecha como a la izquierda. No habrá un Trump, un Clinton ni un Bush cerca de la papeleta.

Cerca de la mitad de los estadounidenses dijeron en una nueva encuesta de CNN que la elección presidencial de 2028 ha estado en su mente al menos en cierta medida. Durante la conferencia anual AmericaFest, de Turning Point USA, en Arizona el fin de semana pasado, la líder del grupo conservador, Erika Kirk, prácticamente respaldó al vicepresidente J. D. Vance, aunque él no ha lanzado una campaña.

Suponiendo que él decida postularse, Vance tendrá que mantener unida la frágil coalición de votantes del presidente Donald Trump —cuyas fisuras fueron evidentes en Turning Point— y enfrentarse a otros republicanos que quieren su oportunidad en la Casa Blanca.

Hablé con Eric Bradner, de CNN, quien cubre a los republicanos, sobre el estado actual del juego, a quiénes esperamos que lancen una campaña presidencial en 2028 y hacia dónde se dirigirá el partido en la inminente era pos-Trump.

Nuestra conversación, que se llevó a cabo por teléfono y ha sido editada para tener mayor claridad, aquí está a continuación.

Y para ver el panorama demócrata, puede revisar esta conversación con Edward-Isaac Dovere. de CNN.

WOLF: Los demócratas tendrán un campo completamente abierto sin un líder claro en 2028. ¿Qué tendrán los republicanos?

BRADNER: Los republicanos tienen a un vicepresidente en funciones en J. D. Vance, y en los últimos meses, ha quedado cada vez más claro que él tiene el “disparo de salida” para 2028 en sus manos. Ha dicho que no planea hacer nada hasta después de las elecciones intermedias del próximo año, y luego planea sentarse con el presidente Trump para hablar sobre 2028. Así que el plazo para que Vance se convierta en candidato activo, si eso es lo que decide hacer —y creo que casi todos esperan que sí— es probablemente de al menos un año. Pero parece cada vez más claro que muchos republicanos van a esperarlo, y algunos nombres importantes van a deferir a él.

WOLF: A Trump le gusta hacer bromas sobre Vance y Rubio postulándose juntos. Vance hizo una broma recientemente sobre la idea de que Rubio podría postularse. ¿Podrían dos funcionarios de Trump retarse el uno al otro o salir con una candidatura unificada?

BRADNER: No estoy seguro de que el presidente Trump esté bromeando. Uno de los muchos detalles noticiosos en el perfil de Vanity Fair sobre la secretaria general de la Casa Blanca, Susie Wiles, fue Marco Rubio diciendo que si J. D. Vance se postula para presidente, Vance será el candidato republicano y él lo apoyará.

Rubio es evidentemente alguien que goza de la simpatía del presidente Donald Trump; ya se ha postulado para presidente antes, sabe cómo hacerlo y sería un candidato viable en cualquier carrera en la que participe. Pero no parece tener interés en enfrentarse a J. D. Vance, al menos en esta etapa temprana de la presidencia de Trump.

Ahora, Vance es el vicepresidente. Está vincula

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By Auzinea Bacon, CNN

(CNN) — Moviegoers flocked to theaters for Disney’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” on the last weekend of the year, solidifying the sci-fi adventure film’s place as one of the biggest blockbusters of 2025.

The third installment of director James Cameron’s “Avatar” films raked in another $64 million domestically Friday through Sunday, and roughly $181.2 million internationally, bringing its worldwide total to $760.4 million.

“Fire and Ash” is the No. 6 highest-grossing film worldwide this year, having overtaken popular releases like Warner Bros. Discovery’s “Superman” and Sony Pictures’ “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” in just 10 days.

Warner Bros. Discovery is the parent company of CNN.

The big-budget “Avatar” franchise, which includes films from 2009 and 2022, has proved it can still draw large audiences to theaters with its spectacular visual effects. “Fire and Ash” has earned $96 million globally on IMAX and is expected to become IMAX’s biggest Hollywood release of the year, according to Disney.

“Premium formats (are) a huge factor for ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash,’ despite the fact that consumers are price-sensitive,” said Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends at Comscore.

Audiences were also drawn to a diverse slate of movies this weekend. Disney’s “Zootopia 2,” which opened on Thanksgiving, finished No. 2 at the box office with $20 million, a 35% jump from last weekend, according to Comscore. “Zootopia 2” has grossed $1.4 billion worldwide — the second-highest-grossing movie of the year.

“(‘Zootopia 2’) gets the Most Valuable Player award for the holiday season,” said Dergarabedian, who noted that PG-rated movies earned $2.87 billion this year, while outperforming PG-13 movies.

At No. 3 was A24’s “Marty Supreme” — the sports comedy-drama starring Timothée Chalamet — which grossed $17.5 million amid a surge of attention on social media. It was driven by a male-dominated “Marty Army,” according to A24, with one-third of the movie’s audience being under 25 years old.

After opening in six theaters last weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, “Marty Supreme” rode a wave of Oscar and online buzz to propel it to box office success in over 2,600 theaters, according to Shawn Robbins, director of movie analytics at Fandango and owner of Box Office Theory.

“(A24) catered to the old and new mindsets of marketing a movie like this around the holidays, knowing that it would be an award season player,” he said.

Lionsgate Films’ “The Housemaid,” which opened last weekend, was No. 4 this weekend at $15.4 million. It was followed by Sony Pictures’ “Anaconda” ($14.5 million), a reboot of the 1997 movie.

Angel Studios’ “David” ($12.69 million) finished sixth, ahead of Paramount’s “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants” ($11 million). Focus Features’ “Song Sung Blue” opened this weekend at No. 8 with $7.6 million.<

By Auzinea Bacon, CNN

(CNN) — Moviegoers flocked to theaters for Disney’s “Avatar: Fire and Ash” on the last weekend of the year, solidifying the sci-fi adventure film’s place as one of the biggest blockbusters of 2025.

The third installment of director James Cameron’s “Avatar” films raked in another $64 million domestically Friday through Sunday, and roughly $181.2 million internationally, bringing its worldwide total to $760.4 million.

“Fire and Ash” is the No. 6 highest-grossing film worldwide this year, having overtaken popular releases like Warner Bros. Discovery’s “Superman” and Sony Pictures’ “Demon Slayer: Infinity Castle” in just 10 days.

Warner Bros. Discovery is the parent company of CNN.

The big-budget “Avatar” franchise, which includes films from 2009 and 2022, has proved it can still draw large audiences to theaters with its spectacular visual effects. “Fire and Ash” has earned $96 million globally on IMAX and is expected to become IMAX’s biggest Hollywood release of the year, according to Disney.

“Premium formats (are) a huge factor for ‘Avatar: Fire and Ash,’ despite the fact that consumers are price-sensitive,” said Paul Dergarabedian, head of marketplace trends at Comscore.

Audiences were also drawn to a diverse slate of movies this weekend. Disney’s “Zootopia 2,” which opened on Thanksgiving, finished No. 2 at the box office with $20 million, a 35% jump from last weekend, according to Comscore. “Zootopia 2” has grossed $1.4 billion worldwide — the second-highest-grossing movie of the year.

“(‘Zootopia 2’) gets the Most Valuable Player award for the holiday season,” said Dergarabedian, who noted that PG-rated movies earned $2.87 billion this year, while outperforming PG-13 movies.

At No. 3 was A24’s “Marty Supreme” — the sports comedy-drama starring Timothée Chalamet — which grossed $17.5 million amid a surge of attention on social media. It was driven by a male-dominated “Marty Army,” according to A24, with one-third of the movie’s audience being under 25 years old.

After opening in six theaters last weekend in New York City and Los Angeles, “Marty Supreme” rode a wave of Oscar and online buzz to propel it to box office success in over 2,600 theaters, according to Shawn Robbins, director of movie analytics at Fandango and owner of Box Office Theory.

“(A24) catered to the old and new mindsets of marketing a movie like this around the holidays, knowing that it would be an award season player,” he said.

Lionsgate Films’ “The Housemaid,” which opened last weekend, was No. 4 this weekend at $15.4 million. It was followed by Sony Pictures’ “Anaconda” ($14.5 million), a reboot of the 1997 movie.

Angel Studios’ “David” ($12.69 million) finished sixth, ahead of Paramount’s “The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants” ($11 million). Focus Features’ “Song Sung Blue” opened this weekend at No. 8 with $7.6 million.

This was the best Christmas week for the box office since 2020, according to Robbins.

“To have most of these seven major releases opening around Christmas do relatively well, and you either meet or exceed expectations — that has not happened very much in the post-Covid era,” Robbins said.

The overall domestic box office has grossed $8.76 billion in earnings in 2025, according to Comscore data. That’s up 1.56% from last year but still behind 2023, the only post-pandemic year to boast $9 billion in earnings.

Box office numbers are still well behind 2019, when domestic earnings totaled more than $11 billion.

By Gordon Ebanks, CNN

Two helicopters crashed midair in southern New Jersey on Sunday, leaving one person dead and injuring another, officials said.

The aircraft, an Enstrom F-28A and an Enstrom 280C helicopter, “collided in mid-air” about 11:25 a.m. near Hammonton Municipal Airport, the Federal Aviation Administration said. Only the pilots were on board the helicopters when they collided, according to the statement.

Hammonton Police Chief Kevin Friel told the Associated Press responding crews extinguished flames that engulfed one of the helicopters.

The helicopters came down in a field in Hammonton and both victims were airlifted to the trauma center, Hammonton Fire Department Chief Sean Macri told CNN.

The National Transportation Safety Board will be heading the investigation into the crash, according to the FAA.

Hammonton, located in Atlantic County, is about 35 miles from Philadelphia and sits near the New Jersey Pine Barrens, a vast area of forested wilderness.

The Hammonton Fire Department has asked bystanders to avoid the area while emergency services respond to the incident.

This is a developing story and will be updated.

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