Devika Bhat
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311 appearances
4 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 10 Sep
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Yeah.
And I think what's sort of interesting in the last few weeks is we've seen a slight sort of pivot, if you like, in his administration and indeed he himself last night, acknowledging that the war won't be over by the time the midterms happen.
And I think that's a reality that the Trump team has now had to confront head on.
long time, there was a lot of denial that every time we obviously had sort of an attempt at a ceasefire, which then broke down very quickly, but
There's been a sort of outright denial at times of the fact that there is still a war going on.
But now we're in a place where it feels like Trump's had to acknowledge that the war won't be over.
And so the strategy seems to have shifted slightly to try and just downplay its effect and its impacts.
And so, you know, one of the things he said last night was that things will get better economically.
Oil prices will go back down as soon as the midterms are over.
So, you know, vote for me and it'll all be fine
run.
But the key concern for Trump and his team about the Iran war.
at this stage, I think, is less about the actual crisis in the Middle East or multiple crises this has caused across that region and sort of devastated that region in ways that it really didn't need and much more about its impact on the American people at home.
So, I mean, that's the sort of golden question, isn't it?
We have to generally be suspicious of polling generally around the world.
We've seen lots of examples where it hasn't quite come true, but none more so perhaps than in the US, you know, both with Kamala Harris and obviously when Trump won the first time round, which came as a big shock against Hillary Clinton.
So polls, especially when it comes to Trump, are not always the reliable indicator that they may have been at one point for American elections.
But that said, the feeling is that the Democrats have a reasonable chance of taking the House.
The Senate is a bit more of a toss up.
I think there's polling in recent days that suggests that's again moving in the Democrats' favour.
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