CHILMARK, Massachusetts — President Barack Obama says Republicans are reflexively opposing a nuclear deal with Iran because his name is attached to it, brushing off criticism from a majority in Congress as he continues his campaign to build support for the deal.
Ahead of a looming congressional vote to try to derail the agreement, Obama argues in a pair of interviews released Monday that it should surprise nobody that Republicans are opposed to the deal en masse. He points to their resistance to his health care law and budget proposals as evidence that their recent hostility has nothing to do with the content of the nuclear deal.
“Unfortunately, a large portion of the Republican Party, if not a near unanimous portion of Republican representatives, are going to be opposed to anything that I do,” Obama tells NPR News, adding that the judgments have often been based not on the merits, but “on their politics.”
— AP
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