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    "parsed_content": "The Race for CongressNational Citizenship DatabaseWhen to Vote in Your StateLatest PollsCompetitive RacesSeat PickupsAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTSome Republicans Issue a New Call on Trump\u2019s War With Iran: End It NowAs their midterm picture darkens, and gas and diesel prices soar, some Republicans who backed the war for months are now changing their tune.Listen \u00b7 7:58 min Share full articleOpen modal at item 1 of 2Open modal at item 2 of 2Former Representative Mike Rogers of Michigan and Representative Ashley Hinson of Iowa, both running in key Senate races, have recently called for an end to the war. Kenny Holston\/The New York Times, KC McGinnis for The New York TimesBy Tim BalkSept. 27, 2026See more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google As President Trump warned in a speech to the United Nations General Assembly in recent days that he might \u201cannihilate\u201d Iran, a growing number of Republicans were scrambling to find distance from a costly war that has swelled into a midterm crisis for the party.The split screen showed how Mr. Trump and his party\u2019s battleground candidates are increasingly at odds as the November elections approach. With no clear resolution in sight, the war has sent the prices of gasoline, diesel and heating oil upward, and cost increases have spilled across the economy. Mortgage rates have also climbed to seven percent, squeezing prospective homeowners already struggling with inflation.While Mr. Trump is talking about escalating the war if he cannot strike a deal with Iran, Republicans in competitive races are losing patience with the fighting.Representative Ashley Hinson, the party\u2019s Senate nominee in Iowa, called at a news conference Friday for an \u201cimmediate\u201d end to the war, saying she was \u201cincredibly frustrated\u201d by rising costs. Former Representative Mike Rogers, the Republican nominee in the Senate race in Michigan and an early cheerleader for the war, released an advertisement on Monday in which he declared that it \u201cneeds to end.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTBrinker Harding, a Republican trying to win a swing Nebraska congressional district that has been in his party\u2019s hands for nearly a decade, said in an interview Friday that \u201cwe need to bring the war in Iran to a close as quickly as possible.\u201d And Senator Jon Husted, who is working to fend off the Democratic former senator Sherrod Brown, told reporters on Friday that \u201cwe got to bring the war to a close\u201d \u2014 even as he added that any resolution should be on \u201cacceptable\u201d terms.Still, many Republicans have been cautious about crossing Mr. Trump, fearing a backlash that could alienate Republican voters they need in November. Despite Ms. Hinson\u2019s and Mr. Husted\u2019s calls for an end to the war, they recently voted against resolutions to rein in Mr. Trump\u2019s ability to carry on the conflict.On Saturday, Mr. Trump said he rejected Iran\u2019s latest cease-fire proposal, another signal that Republicans\u2019 calls for an end to the war would not be swiftly answered. The proposal would have reopened the Strait of Hormuz \u2014 a vital oil-shipping corridor before the war \u2014 and restarted negotiations on Iran\u2019s nuclear program.Much of the conflict has played out as Mr. Trump conducted a primary season retribution campaign against Republicans he deemed disloyal.\u201cA lot of Republicans didn\u2019t want to have a fight with him during the primaries,\u201d said Carter Wrenn, a Republican strategist in North Carolina, referring to Mr. Trump. \u201cBut now that they\u2019re over, it looks to me like some of them are now starting to separate.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTFor Republicans in key races, Mr. Wrenn added, the war is a \u201cbig problem.\u201dImageGas prices in central Virginia in September.Credit...Parker Michels-Boyce for The New York TimesNationwide, the cost of a gallon of gasoline has climbed by 40 cents this month to roughly $4.50, according to the AAA motor club, with the Strait of Hormuz now stuck in a lethal monthslong stalemate. Mortgage rates are high and rising, and the cost of a gallon of diesel has climbed to about $6.50, threatening to further lift grocery prices by increasing transportation costs. The Trump administration is rushing to tamp down surging yields on some government bonds.Sign up for the On Politics newsletter. It's a pivotal moment for American politics. Join us for 2026 and beyond. Get it sent to your inbox.Republicans have worried about the conflict for months, as the president\u2019s early promise of a military campaign lasting \u201cfour to five weeks\u201d faded to months of on-and-off fighting and deepening public frustration.Mr. Trump says his chief objective is to block Iran from developing a nuclear weapon. \u201cI believe we\u2019ll make a deal right after the election because it doesn\u2019t make sense for them not to,\u201d Mr. Trump said Tuesday in his speech to the U.N. \u201cThey\u2019re waiting to see how I do in the midterm election.\u201dAnd he has maintained that the coming election is not a factor in his decision-making on the war, going so far as to claim at times that he does not care about the midterms and does not think about Americans\u2019 financial situations. \u201cI gave absolutely no credence and will not give credence to the election when it comes to Iran,\u201d Mr. Trump told the U.N. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t even enter my mind.\u201dAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTNot every battleground Republican has called for the war\u2019s end, or offered even glancing criticism. In North Carolina, for example, the Republican nominee for Senate, Michael Whatley, has stood by the war. In Texas, the Republican Senate nominee, Ken Paxton, has avoided any daylight with Mr. Trump.But Republicans have grown anxious that Mr. Whatley, a Trump ally, may face a narrowing path to victory. The party is also worried about Texas, a state where a Democrat has not won a Senate seat in decades.ImageMichael Whatley, the Republican Senate candidate in North Carolina, at a rally earlier this month.Credit...Kenny Holston\/The New York Times\u201cThis war in Iran is a disaster,\u201d James Talarico, the Democratic Senate nominee in Texas, said at a news conference at a Dallas-area gas station on Saturday, warning that rising diesel costs would affect the price of a wide range of goods. \u201cIt must end.\u201d (Mr. Paxton issued a statement saying, \u201cStanding next to a gas pump doesn\u2019t make Talarico the authority of affordability.\u201d)Some of the Republicans seen as having the best chances to defy a difficult political environment have been most vocally critical of the war.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMr. Rogers\u2019s reversal in Michigan was among the most striking. A longtime foreign-policy hawk and once a chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Mr. Rogers was an early supporter of the war. In May, Mr. Rogers told WDIV-TV that he viewed the war as a \u201cwin-win-win\u201d for Americans.But in his new ad, set at a supermarket, he acknowledged groceries cost \u201ctoo much.\u201d He also said that ending the war would swiftly bring down energy costs \u2014 a view that is generally not shared by economists.In Iowa, a conservative-leaning state whose agricultural economy has been hit hard by rising fertilizer and diesel prices, Ms. Hinson was not alone in splitting with the president over the war. Two House Republicans in tough races, Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, voted this month to end the war or require explicit congressional authorization for it to move forward.They were joined by five other Republicans, including two in competitive races: Representatives Brian Fitzpatrick of Pennsylvania and Tom Barrett of Michigan. Republicans still overwhelmingly voted to support the conflict, despite polling that suggests less than a third of likely voters in the midterms think Mr. Trump made the right decision in going to war. Ms. Hinson, a congresswoman, did not back the measure, but spoke out against the war in the days that followed.A similar measure failed in the Senate last week, though Senator Susan Collins of Maine supported it. Ms. Collins, a centrist, has long opposed the war. She is seeking a sixth term in a Democratic-leaning state, and some polls show her in the lead or running roughly even with Troy Jackson, the Democratic nominee.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTMany Republicans are simply trying to avoid the issue, hoping to navigate past the economic headwinds by looking for other \u201cpositive things\u201d they have done for constituents, said Matt Rexroad, a Republican strategist. But Mr. Rexroad expressed skepticism that either tiptoeing around the war or criticizing it forcefully would work.\u201cRepublicans have a huge storm coming,\u201d he said, \u201cand it\u2019s going to be pretty brutal for them all the way around.\u201dEmily Davies and Jesus Jim\u00e9nez contributed reporting.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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