March 7, 2026
From CNBC:
November’s midterm elections were always supposed to be about affordability. Then, the bombs began falling in Iran.
…Trump, the “America First” president who campaigned on ending the U.S.’s foreign entanglements, risks alienating his base with his Iran offensive.
Democrats see the war as evidence of what they have been telling voters about Trump all along: he does not care about affordability.
“We have a president who has campaigned on ending forever wars, and he has jumped into war without justification or explanation to the American people,” said Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., chair of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
“So this has been broken promise after broken promise,” DelBene said. “This has been at the expense of the needs of everyday Americans. And I do think voters will hold them accountable in November.”
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