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MORNING GLORY: GOP's only path in November -- defend Trump and defeat radicals in Iran

Republicans need a 'peace with victory' platform on Iran or they face a midterm wipeout in the House and Senate

By Hugh Hewitt Fox News

Published April 30, 2026 5:00am EDT

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Many predictions about the midterm elections in the United States are dire for the GOP: a wipeout in the House and perhaps losing the Senate majority as well. The GOP could weather the electoral storm that almost always chastens the party of a president finishing his sixth year in office.

But the GOP won’t avoid a "thumpin’" as George W. Bush put it after the 2006 rout of the GOP at the polls if today’s Republicans don’t step up and loudly proclaim the wisdom of beginning the battle with Iran, as well as the facts that we are not only winning the battle decisively but that the world will be a much better place when it is over, even if President Trump declares, as Gen. Ulysses S. Grant did in May 1864, that "I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer."

Grant prevailed within the year, but it was indeed a long and hard slog through Northern Virginia to the encirclement and eventual capitulation of Richmond and the Confederacy and the surrender of General Lee’s Army, even as other Union armies won on other fronts.

There will be no "Appomattox" in the battle with Iran, but there will be victory, and the GOP has to preach that inevitability as well as the great wisdom and necessity of the battle.

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Every candidate in every partisan race has to make the case, which is easy to make: The Islamic Republic of Iran is an evil regime, one run by "lunatics," as Secretary Rubio declared as the battle began, one which has always terrorized its own people and the entire region (murdering tens of thousands of its own people in January), and one which has attacked 14 countries after America and Israel resumed their battle with it as it would have done so — with nukes! — had it been able to obtain such weapons, as the left in America and Europe refuses to see or admit, much less discuss.

The GOP needs to embrace ‘peace with victory’ as its platform and argue the case every day from every stage and in every interview.

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