With midterms right around the corner, Democrats are capitalizing on Trump's unpopular war in Iran. At a Saturday campaign rally in Michigan, former President Obama said Iran "now has veto power over the Strait of Hormuz," the route oil takes to reach the rest of the world. "So they're in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started," he said.
NOW - Obama says that Iran is "in a stronger strategic position now than before the war started." pic.twitter.com/0nCKTKg7CF
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Obama spoke on the first day of early voting in Michigan, where he took the stage at Cass Technical High School in Detroit to boost Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed. His stated agenda included the need to "end this war and stop corruption in Washington."
Obama also made the Iran case earlier in the day at a Cleveland rally for Sherrod Brown and Amy Acton. There he called it "an unnecessary war that nobody asked for and nobody voted for," per Fox News, and asked the crowd, "how's that war going?" after saying "seven months later," according to Newsweek. He also called Trump administration officials, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth among them, "not serious people."
On the nuclear file he said "Iran didn't have nuclear
