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The Midterms Might Come Down to One Thing

September 14, 2026 · 7:14 am ET · Leave a Comment

Wall Street Journal: “There will be a lot of noise in the next 50 days, as candidates scratch and claw and try to out-AI each other ahead of the polls. There will be plenty of debate about Abdul El-Sayed and Hasan Piker. There will be a lot of second-guessing about whether Ken Paxton was the strongest GOP candidate to take on James Talarico. There will be hand-wringing about Maine, and New Hampshire, and Iowa, and Alaska, and Ohio. But the price of gasoline stares Americans in the face each day as they go about their lives.”

“This, and, by proxy, the Iran War, could end up being the defining issue of this midterm.”

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