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Will the Iran War Cost Republicans Control of the Senate?

In several key Senate races, GOP candidates broke against Trump's wildly unpopular war. But only after previously supporting it.

Eric Boehm | 11.3.2026 11:45 AM

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As he campaigned on behalf of Rep. Ashley Hinson (R–Iowa) on Sunday, President Donald Trump boasted that he could have "won the Vietnam War in a week."

His solution for that infamous quagmire? Instead of dropping chemical weapons like Agent Orange "in the forest," Trump says he would have advised "going after Ho Chi Minh City." 

That very well may have ended the war more quickly—as it would have meant bombing the capital of South Vietnam, the country American troops were deployed to defend.

Perhaps it is for the best that Trump's medical issues kept him away from that conflict. Unfortunately, they haven't stopped the president from launching a different war that Trump also believed could be won in a short order. These things must be easy when you're brimming with confidence but dangerously ignorant of history, geography, and military tactics. Who could have known that the Iranians would blockade the Strait of Hormuz (aside........

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