President Donald Trump predicted on Wednesday that the Iran conflict would end directly after the November midterm elections.
Trump made the comments while talking to reporters at Joint Base Andrews en route to the Republican midterm convention in Dallas.
“I think the war is going to end immediately after the election,” the president said. “I think the war will end immediately after the election because they can’t hold out any longer.”
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Trump said that Iran was holding out in hopes of impacting the result of the midterms. Democrats, who are favored to take control of the House and potentially the Senate, have already pledged to end the conflict by reining in the president’s war powers or by cutting off funding for the war.
“[Iran is] desperate to try and affect the election so that we can get a nice, weak group of people in there and leave them alone, and let them have their nuclear weapon,” Trump said.