{"id":515289,"date":"2026-03-10T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/515289\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T16:14:07","slug":"iran-wars-oil-spike-fuels-republican-anxieties-about-midterms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/515289\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran War\u2019s oil spike fuels Republican anxieties about midterms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"5HE3ENCPZBDJNGICE724IDKTAU\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">President Donald Trump was eager to point to gas prices in his State of the Union speech last month as he touted his administration\u2019s progress on the economy.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"OXCANXMA5VBCJIJBF5FS6AXVUA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">\u201cGasoline, which reached a peak of over $6 a gallon in some states under my predecessor \u2014 it was, quite honestly, a disaster \u2014 is now below $2.30 a gallon in most states,\u201d Trump boasted minutes into his nearly-two-hour address, framing his party\u2019s message heading into the midterms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump was eager to point to gas prices in his State of the Union speech last&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3,21,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-515289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}