Anvi Bhutani

While President Trump has said that America is at war, many Republican lawmakers have strayed away from the term war or have had contention around the use of the term war.

Lawmakers have also made comparisons to the US's poorly run ground wars in the Middle East,

After some intelligence briefings earlier this week, most lawmakers still had further questions around the scale and scope of the operation, as well as the timeline as to how long the US would stay committed in operations involving Iran.

The numbers are definitely looking a lot better for Democrats on the House side.

Usually midterm elections end up resulting in a swing to the party that's opposite to who's in the White House.

There's about 60 or so competitive seats in play, but Republicans currently hold a really small majority in the House.

218 seats compared to 213 for Democrats.

So even if Democrats were to flip a handful of seats, that would push them over the edge and win them the speakership.

For instance, in New York, we have Republican Representative Mike Lawler, but Kamala Harris won that district.

And so potentially, Democrats are thinking that that's a place that they could win.