Miles Parks

Are there specific outcomes that if they were to come true would get people more in favor of this action?

Or is it just I don't like Trump, so I don't like anything he does on the kind of world stage?

What about, I guess, in the short term, how this impacts midterms?

Because we always talk about how foreign policy generally is not something that is top of mind for voters.

But I do wonder if a conflict like that could change things.

Well, I wonder how much also...

Was the president banking on some sort of we see this a lot in previous American conflicts where there is sort of a uniting, at least initially, moment where the country does support the president in in conflict time?

Why hasn't that happened here so much?

I mean, Tam, the White House has been saying, I feel like, for most of President Trump's second term, that the president was going to focus more on domestic issues.

Do we have any sense on whether that's happening or whether numbers like these poll numbers we're talking about are going to motivate him to start doing that?

Is that, I mean, this fixation on the rules of the election, is that an indication that President Trump is worried, I guess, about the results if the rules of voting stay the same?

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