{"id":374430,"date":"2026-04-04T08:57:28","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:57:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374430\/"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:57:28","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T08:57:28","slug":"trump-approval-ratings-will-iran-war-cost-donald-trump-u-s-midterm-elections-badly-republican-experts-send-clear-warning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/374430\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump approval ratings: Will Iran war cost Donald Trump U.S Midterm elections badly? Republican experts send clear warning"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republicans are facing tough times leading up to the midterm elections. A year and a half after winning the White House by promising to lower costs and end wars, President Donald Trump<\/a>‘s second tenure is witnessing surging energy costs and an escalating overseas conflict that many in his own party do not like.<\/p>\n

About 6 in 10 U.S. adults say the U.S. military action in Iran has \u201cgone too far,\u201d according to AP-NORC polling from March. Roughly a third approve of how he\u2019s handling Iran overall.<\/p>\n

The possibility of sending U.S. forces into Iran also appears politically unpalatable.\"ETLive EventsAbout 6 in 10 adults are ‘strongly’ or ‘somewhat’ opposed to deploying U.S. troops on the ground to fight Iran. That includes about half of Republicans. Only about 1 in 10 favor deploying troops.
At the same time, Trump\u2019s approval ratings have remained consistently weak. About 4 in 10 Americans approve of how he\u2019s handling the presidency, roughly in line with how it\u2019s been throughout his second term.
Republican strategist Ari Fleischer, a senior aide in former President George W. Bush\u2019s administration, acknowledged that Trump has not received the polling bump in this war that Bush got after invading Iraq.<\/p>\n

Bush, of course, worked to build public backing for the Iraq War before going in. Immediately after the 2003 invasion, Bush’s popularity soared, as did the stock market.<\/p>\n

Public sentiment and the economy soured only after the conflict stretched on. It ultimately spanned more than eight years, spawning a generation of anti-war Republicans \u2014 and sowing the seeds of Trump’s \u201cAmerica First\u201d foreign policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy hope is that the Trump experience is the exact opposite of the Bush experience,\u201d Fleischer said.<\/p>\n

He said Trump must win the war decisively and quickly to avoid a further backlash, saying there could be a \u201cvery significant political upside if things end well, oil comes down and markets rally.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fleischer added that Trump’s actions will matter much more than his words. “Ultimately, he is not going to get judged on his persuasion or his explanations or his assertions, he\u2019s going to get judged on results,” he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou\u2019re looking at an ugly November,\u201d warned veteran Republican pollster Neil Newhouse. \u201cAt a point in time when we need every break possible to hold the House and Senate, our edge is being chipped away.\u201d<\/p>\n

Former Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican who was once among Trump’s most vocal allies in Congress, lashed out against his Iran policy.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted so much for President Trump to put America First. That\u2019s what I believed he would do. All I heard from his speech tonight was WAR WAR WAR,\u201d she wrote on social media. \u201cNothing to lower the cost of living for Americans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Republicans are facing tough times leading up to the midterm elections. A year and a half after winning…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":374431,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[54,179691,42,43,40,38,41,39,89021,179690,179692],"class_list":{"0":"post-374430","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-donald-trump-midterm-elections","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-top-news","13":"tag-top-stories","14":"tag-topnews","15":"tag-topstories","16":"tag-trump-approval-ratings","17":"tag-trump-midterm-elections","18":"tag-trump-ratings"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=374430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/374431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=374430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=374430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=374430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}