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Trump's war on Iran is unpopular and expensive. He's perfectly OK with that
The midterm elections are less than four months away, and Republicans in the House and the Senate -- hampered by a deeply unpopular president and what might be an even less popular war -- are increasingly fearful of losing their jobs. 'With the midterm elections a little more than 100 days away, the clock is ticking for President Trump to get out of this war before voters head to the polls. It's making a lot of Republicans nervous. It's already, as we know, unpopular,' Laura Ingraham, usually a staunch Trump supporter, said on her show on Monday. Just 28% of Americans think the Iran war is worth fighting, a Washington Post-Ipsos poll found last week; 68% believe it is not worth fighting.