Will the Iran war turn midwest swing states against Trump after his ‘America first’ promise?

Trump failing to keep his word could be important ahead of primaries and midterm elections for independents It was on 18 October 2024, just weeks before presidential election day that candidate Trump announced at a rally in Hamtramck, a small, diverse city inside Detroit with a large Muslim population, that once in office he would “get peace in the Middle East”. For the many in attendance and who have family in the region, it was music to their ears. Time and again on the campaign trail two years ago, Trump has said he would get America out of “endless wars” and put “America first”. It was this messaging that, in part, persuaded some crucial voters in the upper midwest swing states to back him, voters who ultimately helped get him back in the White House. Despite Trump’s promises, in a little over a year in office the US military has opened up a host of international interventions. It killed more than 100 people during the overthrow and imprisonment in January of president of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, and has launched airstrikes and other attacks in Nigeria, Somalia and Syria since Trump became president. But following Israel into a conflict with Iran, one that has