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Today's contests will help shape the fiercely contested midterms this fall to determine control of Congress
President Donald Trump posted an image of a map of the strait of Hormuz on his social media platform Truth Social, with a circle around the strait and the words New US Territory" as the title on Tuesday morning.
This follows comments made on Friday at a speech at a police academy on Long Island, New York, where Trump said After we finish defeating Iran, which is being very badly defeated, pretty soon I'll be declaring the Hormuz strait a territory of the United States. ... Essentially, that's what it is. We have the blockade. No ships get through unless we want them to."
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