If you’re a Republican running for office in a part of the country that isn’t dark red in 2026, how are you supposed to walk into this mess?
That’s what Republicans across the country are wondering. Some Republicans like Senator Tim Scott (R-SC) have chosen to deny reality and claim that everything is great.
The truth becomes clearer in the Washington Post/ABC News/IPSOS poll:
President Donald Trump’s war in Iran is as unpopular among Americans as the war in Iraq during its peak year of violence in 2006 and the Vietnam War in the early 1970s, amid growing economic pain and fears of terrorism from the military campaign, according to a Washington Post-ABC News-Ipsos poll.
Sixty-one percent of Americans say the use of military force against Iran was a mistake, while fewer than two in ten Americans believe U.S. actions in Iran have been successful. About 4 in 10 say it hasn’t been successful, while another 4 in 10 say it’s “too early to tell.”
Trump’s Iran war is the opposite of Bush’s Iraq war, which became unpopular when it became clear that Americans were getting hurt and dying and there was no hope of winning.
The Trump conflict has fueled the economic pain that the Iranians have been able to inflict on the American people in a war that also seems impossible for the US to win.
Trump’s war took away and made worse a bad economy.
The president has so inflamed an already angry electorate that even regulars like CNN’s John King are calling the war a disaster.
