Democratic Senate candidates in Georgia, Iowa, and Maine made the Iran War and rising fuel costs their main case against their Republican opponents in debates on Oct. 13, three weeks before Election Day.
Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-Ga.), state Rep. Josh Turek of Iowa, and former Maine Senate President Troy Jackson each blamed the war for higher gas, diesel, and heating oil prices.
Each tied their opponent to President Donald Trump’s decision to go to war.
The Cook Political Report rates the Iowa and Maine races as toss-ups and Georgia as likely Democratic.
In Georgia, Ossoff pressed Rep. Mike Collins (R-Ga.) at the Atlanta Press Club debate to explain how the war had helped Georgians, citing 21 U.S. service members killed and what he called a global energy crisis….