Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), one of the Senate’s biggest Iran war hawks, is putting his full chest and his job behind the U.S.-Israeli war, saying the conflict is “worth losing my job” over.“If I had to give up my job to make sure Iran would never have a nuclear weapon, I would do it,” Graham said on NBC’s Meet the Press on Sunday morning when asked if a non-nuclear Iran would be worth losing the midterm elections for.The world is watching closely this week as the ceasefire between the U.S. and Iran passes five weeks and President Donald Trump returns from a state visit to China. Before taking off for Beijing last week, Trump told reporters that voters’ “financial situation” does not affect his negotiations to end the war.
“The only thing that matters when I’m talking about Iran: They can’t have a nuclear weapon. I don’t think about Americans’ financial situation. I don’t think about anybody,” Trump said.
Trump’s comments come as energy, gas, and fertilizer prices rise in the U.S. and globally because of the uncertainty around the Strait of Hormuz in a midterm election year. When NBC’s Kristen Welker asked Graham if he agreed with the president’s take in this respect, Graham called it Trump’s “Churchill moment.”
