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.
Kristi Rogers walked a Detroit gas station lot handing out $10 gift cards while Michigan gas sat at $4.59 a gallon. Her husband called the Iran war behind those prices a 'win-win-win.' His campaign hasn't said who paid for the cards.
At a debate, asked about Trump's deal to let Russian diesel in, Andy Harris blamed Democrats' environmental rules for fuel prices that are up 72% as the Iran war drags on. When the audience laughed, he called them rude. Afterward, he told a Capital News Service reporter she was breaking Maryland law by recording him in a room full of cameras, told someone to take her camera, and called for an officer.
In 2024, Gabe Evans signed the Libertarian Party of Colorado's pledge — including a promise to 'remove non-Constitutional presidential war powers and return those powers back to Congress' — and the Libertarian candidate dropped out to back him. In 2026, he voted against all six Iran war powers resolutions the House took up.
Rick Crawford admits diesel prices are crushing east Arkansas. The war behind them has cost the state's farmers an estimated $343 million this year — and Crawford has voted against every House resolution to end it.
Calvert calls Kim a 'Trump-traitor.' But when Trump told a Nebraska rally 'let 'em take out Los Angeles, let 'em take out San Diego,' RealClearPolitics reports both Southern California Republicans 'carefully avoided' it. Both cheered the war in March and voted to keep it going in September.
At a Nebraska rally, Trump said Iran war gas prices were 'a small price to pay' and added 'let 'em take out Los Angeles, let 'em take out San Diego.' The man he endorsed for California governor didn't respond when asked. In March, Hilton said the war wasn't why Californians pay so much for gas.