The White House is denying the claim that a US National Security Council (NSC) official suggested that a preemptive strike on North Korea could help the Republican Party in the midterm elections.
On Saturday, White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders slammed a Wall Street Journal reporter on Twitter, after he tweeted an article which claimed that the senior director for Asian affairs at the NSC, Matthew Pottinger, advocated for a possible military strike on North Korea in order to boost political support for the GOP, which is facing a defeat at the hand of Democrats in November’s midterm elections.
All 435 seats in the House of Representatives and 34 of the 100 seats in the Senate will be contested. Thirty-nine state and territorial governorships and numerous other state and local elections will also be contested.
Sanders was responding to a tweet by the Journal’s Seoul bureau chief Jonathan Cheng, who posted an article, published by…