{"id":336026,"date":"2026-09-27T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/trumps-war-with-iran-drags-down-republicans-in-midterm-elections.html"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:33:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T17:33:10","slug":"trumps-war-with-iran-drags-down-republicans-in-midterm-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/breaking-news\/trumps-war-with-iran-drags-down-republicans-in-midterm-elections.html","title":{"rendered":"Trump\u2019s War With Iran Drags Down Republicans in Midterm Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">As President Trump <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">warned<\/a> in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in recent days that he might \u201cannihilate\u201d Iran, a growing number of Republicans were scrambling to find distance from a costly war that has swelled into a midterm crisis for the party.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">The split screen showed how Mr. Trump and his party\u2019s battleground candidates are increasingly at odds as the November elections approach. With no clear resolution in sight, the <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">war has sent the prices of gasoline<\/a>, diesel and heating oil upward, and cost increases have spilled across the economy. Mortgage rates have also climbed to seven percent, squeezing prospective homeowners already struggling with inflation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">While Mr. Trump is talking about escalating the war if he cannot strike a deal with Iran, Republicans in competitive races are losing patience with the fighting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-12m5bll evys1bk0\">Representative Ashley Hinson, the party\u2019s Senate nominee in Iowa, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">called at a news conference<\/a> Friday for an \u201cimmediate\u201d end to the war, saying she was \u201cincredibly frustrated\u201d by rising costs. Former Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee in the Senate race in Michigan and an early cheerleader for the war, <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\">released an advertisement on Monday<\/a> in which he declared that it \u201cneeds to end.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Article source: https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/09\/27\/us\/politics\/iran-war-republicans-midterms-trump.html<\/a>\r\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As President Trump warned in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in recent days that he might \u201cannihilate\u201d Iran, a growing number of Republicans were scrambling to find distance from a costly war that has swelled into a midterm crisis for the party. The split screen showed how Mr. Trump and his party\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-336026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=336026"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=336026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=336026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usa.timesofnews.com\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=336026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}