America has been at war with Iran for more than six months — but it was far from a top issue at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas this week.
\n\nThe war wasn’t entirely absent: Administration officials defended it. President Donald Trump talked about the war in his speeches Wednesday and Thursday nights. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also referred to it in a video shown Wednesday.
\n\nVice President JD Vance didn’t explicitly mention Iran in his address Thursday night, but he paid tribute to slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk, saying he “hated war” and acknowledging that there are “people who love what we’ve done and people who don’t” while urging conservatives to stick together in the midterms.
\n\nAside from that, essentially none of the other speakers discussed the war, which is a point of major concern for Americans ahead of the midterm elections. The recent NBC News Decision Desk Poll found just 31% of adults approving of Trump’s handling of the war, with 69% disapproving.
\n\nRobert Jeffress, the senior pastor of First Baptist Church in Dallas, told the crowd Thursday night that “we are in a war” — but he clarified that he was talking about a “cosmic” battle between…
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