Today’s notice: What happens after the ceasefire? Lindsey Graham’s legacy. The story behind the photo of the woman on the train. Fraud enforcement check-in. Mike Lawler’s fight. And: Which progressive firm has come out on top after Graham Platner?
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The dream of lower gas prices this summer seems truly gone, doesn’t it? Donald Trump and the Iranian regime have torn up their deal and are now once again each claiming to have control of the Strait of Hormuz. Oil prices have already started to tick back up, and it’s hard to imagine that story will change anytime soon.
The war returns, and the political challenge with it. In other words, this is an election where costs are a huge motivating factor, and a conflict that has never been popular doesn’t play well for the incumbent party. There was some hope that at least one of those challenges, the price of gas, would be alleviated.
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“I’m not an economist,” Rep. Richard Hudson (R-North Carolina), the chair of the NRCC, told Manuela yesterday when asked if gas prices will be going back down again significantly before the election — just hours after meeting with Trump at the White House. It was a déjà vu moment from the pre-ceasefire world. “What the president did in Iran was the right thing to do, and he had to do it, and I support him,” Hudson went on. “You can’t make political calculations when it comes to the safety of this country. I think Americans, people appreciate the president who’s willing to stand up for the country and do the hard things.”