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Analysis: Why Trump and Iran may now be waiting out the midterms | CNN Politics

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President Donald Trump’s declaration Thursday that he would not attack Iran again before next month’s midterm elections was an implicit admission of the damage being inflicted on Republican hopes by a war that has defied his promise of a quick victory.

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