'I think the military side of this is going well. I think the political side is not going so well,' said John Bolton, Trump's former National Security Advisor. 'I don't think the President made the case to the American people.
'While regime change is logical, indeed compelling, policy to pursue, he didn't prepare Congress for it, he didn't prepare the allies for it, and I'm very much afraid that Trump will have caused a lot of destruction in Iran but will leave the battle before the regime is changed.'
Professor Sabato said: ''There's no way it ends in the next week or two. This could really go on a while, and that will determine its effect in November.
'There is a direct connection between it and the gas prices and food prices. That was his fundamental pledge in the election and food prices haven't come down at all, in fact they've continued to go up. Gas prices did come down, but now they skyrocketed.'