Tamara Keith

Does potentially ending it or having a two-week ceasefire, maybe getting...

the Strait of Hormuz possibly maybe flowing again, does that help the president's party in the midterms?

Yeah.

I mean, the White House has been telling us for how long now?

Since the fall that the president was going to make these midterms about him.

He was going to put himself on the ballot and he was going to get out into the country and campaign.

And it was going to be once or twice a week.

And it's been like once or twice a month, maybe.

It just hasn't happened.

All right.

Well, what are you two watching over the next couple of weeks?

Or should I say the next couple of hours?

And Rubio has been remarkably quiet.

All right.

Well, we're going to leave it there for today.

I'm Tamara Keith.

I cover politics.

And thank you for listening to the NPR Politics Podcast.

Yeah, I mean, well, it's kind of, I think, historically for decades now been kind of a conservative party.

It's long been held in National Harbor outside of D.C.