As midterm elections approach, a meaningful cluster of Republican Senate candidates—including sitting Senator Jon Husted—have begun publicly calling for a swift end to the war with Iran, placing themselves in quiet but deliberate tension with Donald Trump's continued influence over the party. The break is not a rebellion so much as a recalibration: candidates in competitive races are listening to constituents burdened by inflation and war fatigue, and they are speaking what they hear. In the long arc of American political history, this is a familiar moment—when the costs of a distant conflict