The day after the midterms, Vice President JD Vance said Republicans lost because of the Iran war. Trump called that 'largely true' and said he'd do it again. Fourteen senators and 180 House members on this site voted against ordering the troops out.
On the eve of the midterms, the U.S. struck Iran's Qeshm Island. The Wall Street Journal reports it is one of a series of small strikes the administration has kept quiet on purpose for weeks, while Trump promised voters there would be no attacks before Election Day.
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Roger Marshall said the price of gas was "absolutely the barometer for this election."
In her October debate with Alissa Ellman, Claudia Tenney said inflation was at a 50-year low and under 3%, that Republicans had brought costs down, and that Biden shut down our refineries. The government's own numbers say otherwise on all three.
In her only televised debate, Lauren Boebert called Trump's Iran war 'detrimental on many levels' and said she wants it to end — then called the House votes to end it 'symbolic.' She voted no on five of them. On May 14, the resolution died in a 212-212 tie.
Rob Wittman is campaigning to chair the House Armed Services Committee. PACs tied to Lockheed Martin, RTX and other defense companies have given to his campaign and leadership PAC, he and his wife own stock in companies with defense business, and he voted against ending a war with Iran that Congress never approved.
Roger Marshall spent the summer saying the price of gas in October would decide the midterms, and predicting it would come down. Gas in Kansas is up more than 56% since the Iran war began. Now he says 'there are things more important than money to Kansans.'
Sullivan rallied with Trump in Wasilla as the president called higher prices 'a small price to pay.' A day later Begich defended the war on a debate stage. Between them they have voted 20 times to keep it going.
On the first day of Trump's Iran war, a U.S. missile hit a girls' school in Minab, killing many children. Bloomberg reports Pete Hegseth's advisers intend to hold the Pentagon's report on the attack until after the November midterms at the earliest.