Iran War backlash threatens Republican control of Congress

You saw very clearly at the front end of the war in March, 61 percent of the Americans polled disapproved of the war. So the president started out with a very high rate of disapproval, and that has only escalated. State by state, you see the results in terms of public anger over the economic impact and the fact that Americans really don't want to be at war. They don't want another big war in the Middle East, and they don't really understand the purpose of this particular war. So in races that would typically have been in states or in districts that typically would have been strongly Republican, you're seeing a shift. It's not only Republican voters, it's independent voters. So there's every expectation that the Republicans will lose the majority in the House, and they're at real risk of losing it in the Senate. And so that will have an impact, but it's really important for your viewers to understand something. Constitutionally and politically, any president has enormous latitude on the foreign affairs terrain. So this will not translate directly into pressure that the president must end the war on November fourth. So I think it's still going to be a ways to go.