# Victor Davis Hanson: Trump Plans to Use the Midterms Against Iran Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-signal-329416/victor-davis-hanson-trump-plans-to-use-the-midterms-against-iran Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-signal-329416/victor-davis-hanson-trump-plans-to-use-the-midterms-against-iran.md Podcast: [Daily Signal](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-signal-329416) Published: 2026-09-14T22:14:00+00:00 Episode link: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/THEDAILYSIGNAL7752284305.mp3 Audio file: https://traffic.megaphone.fm/THEDAILYSIGNAL7752284305.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-signal-329416/episodes/victor-davis-hanson-trump-plans-to-use-the-midterms-against-iran Duration seconds: 724 ## Resource Iran mistakenly thinks the November midterms are President Trump's weakness. But Trump plans to use this thinking and the midterms against the Iranian regime. If Trump can end the conflict by his midterm deadline and truly accomplish his objectives, there’s a very good chance it could boost Republicans’ outcome in the November elections. "If you look at the entire situation, the midterms are actually in the interest of Donald Trump and the Iranian dissidents. Donald Trump then has a deadline to which he can bring this thing to a close. He's got seven weeks, and I think that he will be encouraging internal revolt."  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-daily-signal-329416/episodes/victor-davis-hanson-trump-plans-to-use-the-midterms-against-iran/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-daily-signal-329416/victor-davis-hanson-trump-plans-to-use-the-midterms-against-iran.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.