Laura Ingraham gave one of her stronger rebukes of President Donald Trump on Monday during an interview with Democratic strategist James Carville. But it wasn’t totally the truth.

The Fox News host noted generic polling that showed a voter preference for Democratic control of Congress.

“Put your campaign hat on for a moment,” Ingraham said to Carville. “Does the generic ballot number mean much to you? I mean, given what you’ve laid out. Obviously, I’ve not been for the war in Iran. And I’m not happy with high gas prices. I see a lot of other good trends, but I’m not happy with those at all.”

“I’ll give you credit,” Carville responded, clearly pleased. “I’ll give you credit.”

“From day one,” Ingraham asserted.

Ingraham, who may have been referring to an NBC News poll indicating a 5% Democratic edge in generic balloting while other surveys have shown larger gaps, appeared to be fudging on her opposition to the war from the get-go.

“It demonstrates how critical it was for President Trump to act when he did,” she said on Fox News in March. “Because if Iran is so much more powerful than even the establishment and all its experts thought, imagine how much worse the situation would be if Iran had a nuclear weapon.”

In April, she said the results of the attacks would be “ultimately a huge gift to future generations.”

The war is now lurching toward the seven-month mark, costing more than $43.6 billion, according to a “certainly on the low side” number from the Pentagon, The New York Times reported last week. Fuel prices have surged, as have Democratic chances for flipping both the House and the Senate in the midterms.

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