Gulf and ‘Blue Wave’
Semafor · Mohammed Sergie ·
The Gulf barely featured in the election, and voters’ demand for lower prices aligns with regional efforts to end the war.
Mohammed’s view
The anticipated blue wave in the US midterm elections turned into a tsunami, and its political ripples will reach the Gulf.
The election was a rebuke to President Donald Trump over rising living costs, the Iran war, and his conduct in office. But whether that makes him less inclined to escalate the Middle East conflict is another matter. As Amos Hochstein, a former senior Biden administration adviser, put it in Abu Dhabi this week, Congress can control budgets, hold hearings, and demand answers — but “the president of the United States does foreign policy.”