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Ashley Hinson and Mike Rogers Now Say Trump's Iran War Has to End. Six Days Earlier, Hinson Voted to Keep It Going.

With diesel at a record $6.51, two Republican Senate nominees who backed the Iran war called for it to end on the same day. Hinson had voted against ending it six times, most recently on Sept. 15. Rogers had called it 'absolutely right.'

MAGA Report Cards · Sep 22, 2026

Ashley Hinson and Mike Rogers Now Say Trump's Iran War Has to End. Six Days Earlier, Hinson Voted to Keep It Going.

On Monday, diesel hit $6.51 a gallon — the highest national average AAA has ever recorded, the Washington Sun reported. The main reason is Trump's war with Iran, which has choked off the Strait of Hormuz, a major route for the world's oil.

The same day, two Republicans running for the Senate in farm-and-factory states discovered that the war should end.

Ashley Hinson, the Iowa congresswoman running for Senate, posted that "Iowans are being squeezed and shouldn't have to foot the bill at the pump or the checkout line for the war in Iran," and that "the war needs to be brought to a successful and immediate end."

A few hours later, Mike Rogers (MI), the Republican Senate nominee in Michigan, posted a video from a grocery store: "The war in Iran needs to end to bring costs down — but Michigan families can't afford to wait."

Neither of them said it when it would have counted.

Hinson had a vote. She kept using it for the war.

Hinson isn't just a candidate. She's a sitting member of the House, and the House has voted again and again on whether to end this war.

Six days before her post, on September 15, the House voted on a resolution ordering the president to pull U.S. forces out of the fighting with Iran. It passed 220 to 204. Seven Republicans voted yes. Hinson voted no.

That wasn't a one-off. NBC News counted six times Hinson has voted against House resolutions to halt the Iran war — every one the House has voted on, the clerk's records show. She also voted twice against ending U.S. fighting in Lebanon, in June and again later that month. In July, she was one of the House Republicans who voted to keep us in the war on a vote their side lost.

Her Democratic opponent, Josh Turek, answered her the same morning: "It's easy to send a tweet but when you had the chance to vote to end this war, you chose not to. You voted seven times to continue it, including just last week."

And Hinson knew the cost long before Monday. As we reported in August, she privately called a long war a "political liability" while voting to keep it going in public — and took $21,000 from the oil industry profiting from it.

Hinson's campaign didn't immediately respond to NBC's request for comment about her past votes.

Rogers cheered it on from the start

Rogers left the House years ago, so he has no votes on this war. What he has is a record of cheering it.

When the strikes began, he called Iran "an imminent threat to our country." In May, he said the war was "absolutely right to make sure that Iran does not get a nuclear weapon." In June, he told the Detroit News that "we are better off today than we were when it started." When a voter at a March campaign stop raised gas prices, he waved it off: "We're gonna be fine, we got plenty of oil."

The Democratic super PAC Senate Majority PAC dug up another line from six months ago: "How anyone says [the war] is a bad idea, I don't know what is."

His opponent, Abdul El-Sayed, didn't mince words: "You've spent your entire campaign supporting the war in Iran. Liar, coward, fraud."

This is Rogers' second pivot in a week. On September 17, he called for suspending the state and federal gas taxes — Michigan's is a tax he once voted to raise — while saying nothing about the war driving prices up. Now the war gets a sentence, and the plan is still somebody else's move: a pause on diesel exports that Trump would have to order.

What they're offering instead

Both candidates' fixes are about the pump, not the war.

Hinson wants to suspend the federal gas tax, pause diesel exports, push E-15 fuel, bring back a biodiesel tax credit and create a diesel relief program for farmers and truckers. Rogers wants a temporary ban on diesel exports. Several of those ideas were already on the table — Turek had released his own plan to pause diesel exports and suspend the federal gas tax five days earlier, and Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley had publicly called on Trump to ban diesel exports over the weekend.

None of it ends a war. Hinson's version still calls for a "successful" end, on Trump's timeline — the same Trump she voted six days earlier to let keep fighting without Congress's approval.

Iowa farmers are heading into harvest with diesel at $6.31 a gallon in their state. The war both candidates now say must end has been running for nearly seven months.

What the record shows

On September 21, Ashley Hinson and Mike Rogers (MI) both said the Iran war needs to end to bring down fuel prices. Hinson had voted eight times against ending U.S. fighting — against all six House resolutions on Iran and two on Lebanon — most recently on September 15 — six days before her post — when she was one of 203 House Republicans who voted to keep the war going. Rogers had called the war "absolutely right" and told a voter worried about gas prices that "we got plenty of oil." Neither has proposed anything that would actually stop the fighting.