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In midterm races, Democrats are using the Iran war to target Republicans—even some who never served in Congress and couldn’t have cast votes on it

It's the culmination of a strategy Democrats launched in the spring, when they began to repeatedly bring up war powers resolutions aimed at ending the conflict.
In Wisconsin, a narrator complains that “groceries, utilities, everything’s getting more expensive and Congressman (Derrick) Van Orden is adding to the list. He voted for the costly Iran war and spiking gas prices.” In Nebraska, Democratic candidate Chris Backemeyer says families are drowning. “And Mike Flood opened the gates. Flood voted six times for Trump’s tariffs and the Iran war, flooding us with higher prices on groceries, gas, cars and medicine, costing us a thousand dollars more a year.” And in Iowa, a group called Vote Vets Action Fund said Republican Senate candidate Ashley Hinson voted five…
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