President Donald Trump’s historic strikes against Iranian targets won backing from a somewhat surprising source: a Democratic lawmaker who is one of the GOP’s top targets this November.
Rep. Greg Landsman (D., Ohio), a Jewish Democrat who flipped a GOP seat in 2022, is towards the top of the Republican Party’s list of Democrats that it would like to oust this year.
Nevertheless, Landsman praised Trump’s work, without mentioning the president directly. “The U.S. is destroying Iran’s missiles and bombs to stop them from taking more lives,” the Ohio Democrat said. “These strikes are targeting military infrastructure — with warnings to Iranian civilians to take shelter away from these military targets. If it wasn’t for the regime, the region may very well know peace.”
“I want a lasting peace for everyone in the region,” Landsman continued, “from the Iranian people to the Lebanese, Palestinians, Syrians, Iraqis, Jordanians, and Israelis. I hope these targeted strikes on the Iranian regime’s military assets ends the regime’s mayhem and bloodshed and makes way for this lasting peace in the region.”
While some top Democrats, like New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani, have sounded outright sympathetic to Iran’s genocidal regime, Landsman added that “for decades, the regime has caused mayhem and bloodshed through Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza, the Houthis in Yemen — all while the people of Iran have suffered. When the Iranian people stood up to protest the regime last month, the regime murdered tens of thousands of its own people.”
Trump, for his part, spoke with the Washington Reporter in his latest interview about the support that some Democrats have shown to him in the wake of his strikes. “We’ve had support from Democrats, that’s true,” Trump reflected.
