2026-10-22T22:29:28.831Z / 美国有线电视新闻网（CNN）
艾奥瓦州苏城——
坚定支持唐纳德·特朗普总统的爱荷华州律师助理克里斯汀·布伦登一年前加油时，花费约为40美元。
她说，现在油价已经涨到了60美元。周四在苏城机场排队等候参加特朗普演讲活动时，布伦登预测，如果如特朗普所暗示的那样，他在11月中期选举后重启对伊朗战争，油价还会进一步上涨。
“我敢肯定油价会再次飙升，”她说。
随着特朗普展开密集的竞选造势活动，以期提振选民对共和党候选人的支持热情，他时常调侃称，这场战争即将迎来决定性结局。
但在爱荷华州——共和党正努力捍卫该州的一个参议院席位和多个美国众议院席位——CNN采访的共和党选民中，大多数人对新一轮高强度空袭的前景持负面看法，无论是参加特朗普集会的人，还是选择不参加的人。
“他开启了这场战争，我不知道他要如何收场。我认为现在是以色列、沙特阿拉伯等其他国家要么全面介入，要么彻底抽身的时候了，”退休律师斯科特·莱茵哈特在苏城邮局外说道。他表示自己是忠实的共和党人，但不会参加特朗普的集会。
从某些方面来看，爱荷华州是受伊朗战争影响最严重的州之一。高昂的汽油和柴油价格重创了该州的农民，增加了农产品运输成本，而且该州已有两名军人在这场冲突中阵亡。
共和党参议院候选人、众议员阿什利·辛森——定于周四晚间与特朗普共同亮相——在这场竞选中采取了微妙的平衡策略，毕竟该州在两年前以两位数优势支持特朗普。她投票反对一项众议院决议，而爱荷华州的两名处境脆弱的共和党议员支持该决议，该决议旨在限制特朗普继续发动战争的权力。但辛森也曾直言不讳地表示，这场战争代价过高，呼吁特朗普以“成功且迅速的方式”结束战争。
特朗普曾表示，他不打算在选举日前恢复对伊朗的空袭，因为他清楚这场战争在国内极不受欢迎，包括在他的许多支持者中。
“一方面，他们支持我，因为我做了其他总统本该做的事；另一方面，他们或许又不支持。这是有代价的，我在发动战争时就立刻意识到了这一点，但我们绝不能让伊朗拥有核武器，”特朗普周四在离开白宫前往爱荷华州时说道。
“其他总统早就该这么做了。这场对伊战争——我们已经重创了他们，或许还会再进一步打击他们，”他补充道。
据美国官员透露，特朗普的顾问们已在幕后制定了与以色列协调的新一轮空袭计划，一旦特朗普批准即可立即执行。
打击目标包括核设施、能源设施以及伊朗剩余的导弹和无人机库，官员们称这场潜在的冲突重启将短暂但激烈。
据官员们透露，正在考虑的一个选项是使用所谓的“炸弹之母”——美国军械库中最大的非核常规炸弹——打击伊朗的能源基础设施和核设施。
无法保证特朗普会批准新的空袭行动，他此前也曾在看似即将下令发动新一轮攻势时打了退堂鼓。但本月在全国巡回造势期间，他强烈向集会观众暗示，近期有望采取决定性行动。
在距离中期选举不到两周之际，这种进一步行动的暗示在这个以农业为主的州并不受欢迎。
22岁的农业学生佩顿·韦伯斯特和朋友一同参加了集会，她说自己不会欢迎新一轮空袭，因为这会给农民带来沉重打击。她表示，农业政策是她投票时的首要考量因素。
“这可能会让（汽油）价格维持在高位，而在当前经济紧张的情况下，这对小型家庭农场来说尤其艰难，所以这毫无益处，”她说。“我更希望我们把精力放在国内，改善公民的生活，而不是卷入国外事务。”
这场战争给该州带来的代价不止经济层面。来自爱荷华州的两名士兵——来自印第安诺拉的少校杰弗里·奥布莱恩和来自西得梅因的士兵德克兰·科迪——在战争初期伊朗无人机袭击科威特的一个战术作战中心时阵亡。两人均隶属于驻扎在得梅因的第103维持司令部。
反映出特朗普所在政党因这场战争面临的压力，爱荷华州的两名共和党众议员扎克·纳恩和玛丽安妮特·米勒-米克斯上个月在众议院投票支持了战争权力决议。
辛森上个月曾在椭圆形办公室承诺，如果特朗普来爱荷华州竞选，她会给他带一份猪排。尽管她试图与总统保持一定距离，但她的态度更为审慎。
“对我而言，成功的结局意味着我们必须确保伊朗永远不会拥有核计划，”辛森周二在与民主党州众议员乔希·图雷克的辩论中说道，她与图雷克的竞争势均力敌。
“我相信美国军方能够实现这一目标，无论具体方式如何。我会见了我们的将军们，进行了相关讨论，但我也会见了阵亡士兵的家属。”
“我不想看到另一个家庭遭遇这样的悲剧，”她继续说道，“没有人希望看到一场永无止境的战争。”
然而，在辛森和特朗普即将发表演讲的飞机库外，即使是狂热的特朗普支持者也对重启战争是否值得持有些许怀疑态度。
“这场战争感觉比我预期的持续时间更长，”41岁的牧师布兰登·约根森说道。“我们刚参战时，我觉得当时的说法非常明确，这场战争会很快结束。比如我们会展示强大的武力，迅速解决问题。但实际情况并非如此。”
企业老板莱斯·克利弗林加则没那么怀疑。
“油价上涨了，但核战争的代价要高得多，”他说。“我不确定这会不会影响油价，但我认为这可能会结束这场战争。”
Trump keeps hinting he’ll resume the Iran war after the midterms. These Iowa GOP voters sound wary
2026-10-22T22:29:28.831Z / CNN
Sioux City, Iowa—
When Christine Brenden, an Iowa paralegal who staunchly supports President Donald Trump, went to fill her gas tank a year ago, it cost around $40.
Now, she said, the cost has jumped to $60. Standing in line to see Trump speak at an airport in Sioux City on Thursday, Brenden predicted fuel prices would only jump further if, as Trump has hinted, he resumes the war with Iran after November’s midterm elections.
“I bet it would skyrocket again,” she said.
As Trump embarks on a frenetic campaign blitz, hoping to rally base enthusiasm behind Republican candidates, he routinely teases that a decisive end to the war is just around the corner.
But in Iowa — where the GOP is trying to defend a Senate seat and several US House seats — the prospect of a new, intensive round of bombing received mostly negative reviews among the Republicans CNN spoke with, both those attending Trump’s event and those who decided to skip it.
“He started something, I don’t know how he’s going to finish it. I think it’s time for Israel, Saudi Arabia, some of the other countries to either jump in or jump out,” said Scott Rhinehart, a retired lawyer, outside the Sioux City post office. He said he was a loyal Republican, but wasn’t attending Trump’s rally.
By some measures, Iowa has been among the states hardest hit by the consequences of the Iran war. High gas and diesel prices have hurt the state’s farmers, making it more expensive to transport their products, and two service members who were from the state have died in the conflict.
The GOP Senate nominee, Rep. Ashley Hinson — who is set to appear with Trump Thursday night — has struck a delicate balance as she fights for a seat in a state Trump won by double digits two years ago. She voted against a House resolution, which two vulnerable Iowa GOP lawmakers backed, that would limit Trump’s powers to continue fighting the war. But Hinson’s been outspoken in calling the war too expensive and calling on Trump to bring it to a “successful and immediate end.”
The president has said he doesn’t intend to resume strikes against Iran before Election Day, mindful the war has proven deeply unpopular at home, including among many of his own supporters.
“Well in one way, they love it because I’m doing what should have been done by other presidents, and another way maybe they don’t. It’s — there’s a price to pay, which I knew immediately when I did it, but we can’t let Iran have a nuclear weapon,” Trump said Thursday while departing the White House for Iowa.
“This should have been done a long time ago by other presidents. The Iran war — and we’ve knocked the hell out of them, and we may do it a little bit further,” he added.
Behind the scenes, advisers have drawn up plans for renewed strikes in coordination with Israel that could be executed as soon as Trump gives the go-ahead.
Targets include nuclear sites, energy facilities and Iran’s remaining missile and drone arsenal, according to US officials, who described a potential renewal of the conflict as short but intense.
One option under active consideration, according to officials: using the so-called “mother of all bombs,” the largest non-nuclear ordnance in the US arsenal, to target Iranian energy infrastructure and nuclear sites.
There is no guarantee Trump will approve new strikes, and he has previously backed off when he seemed close to ordering a new onslaught. But crisscrossing the country this month, he has strongly suggested to rally audiences they should expect decisive action in the near term.
The hint of further action wasn’t sitting well in this heavily agricultural state, with less than two weeks to go until the midterms.
Peyton Webster, a 22-year-old agriculture student attending the rally with a friend, said she wouldn’t welcome another round of bombing because of the toll it would take on farmers. She said farm policy was her number one issue as a voter.
“It would probably just keep (gas prices) up higher, and that’s especially just hard on smaller family units when it’s tight as it is, so that wouldn’t help,” she said. “I like us putting our efforts toward our country and improving the lives of our citizens, and then going and involving in foreign affairs.”
The costs of the war here have been more than just economic. Two soldiers from Iowa — Maj. Jeffrey O’Brien, from Indianola, and Sgt. Declan Coady, from West Des Moines — were killed at the start of the conflict when an Iranian drone struck a tactical operations center in Kuwait. Both were assigned to the 103rd Sustainment Command, based in Des Moines.
Reflecting the pressure many in Trump’s party face because of the war, two Iowa Republicans, Reps. Zach Nunn and Mariannette Miller-Meeks, voted last month for the war powers resolution in the House.
Hinson — who promised in the Oval Office last month to bring a pork chop to Trump if he campaigned in Iowa — has taken a more measured tone even as she’s sought some distance from the president.
“Successful end, to me, means we have to have assurances that there will never be a nuclear program in Iran,” Hinson said during a debate on Tuesday with Democratic state Rep. Josh Turek, with whom she’s locked in a neck-and-neck race.
“I trust the US military to achieve that objective, whatever that looks like. I’ve met with our generals, had those conversations, but I’ve also met with the families.”
“I don’t want to see that happen to another family,” she went on, “and nobody wants a forever war.”
Outside the airplane hangar where Hinson and the president were set to speak, however, even ardent Trump supporters sounded somewhat skeptical that renewing the war would be worthwhile.
“It feels like it’s run longer than I kind of expected it to,” said Brandon Jorgensen, a 41-year-old pastor. “When we first got in, I felt like the language was very much, so like this is going to be quick. Like we’re going to come in, show a lot of force, and come through a quick end. And that hasn’t been really what I’ve seen.”
Les Cleveringa, a business owner, was less dubious.
“Costs are higher, but a nuclear war is a lot more expensive,” he said. “I’m not sure it’ll affect prices, but I think it might bring an end to the war.”
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