Nate Morris, a Kentucky Republican Senate candidate seeking to replace Sen. Mitch McConnell, voiced strong support for President Donald Trump following the launch of U.S. strikes on Iran under Operation Epic Fury, saying the president has “earned the trust” of the American people and predicting the action will be swift rather than prolonged.
Morris, who has received endorsements from Charlie Kirk and Elon Musk, made the remarks during Wednesday’s broadcast of Breitbart News Saturday while speaking with Washington Bureau Chief Matt Boyle.
“My prayers are with our President, our country, our troops,” Morris said. “The President has earned the trust of the American people that we know that this is going to be swift. He’s going to do the right thing, and this is not going to turn into an endless conflict.”
Morris added that Trump has struck what he described as the proper balance in confronting foreign threats.
“This is the first president in our lifetime, maybe in over 100 years, that’s gotten it right — struck the right balance to engage in these kind of conflicts,” he said. “I’m with the President 100 percent, and I think he’s going to get a great outcome for the country.”
President Donald Trump announced that “major combat operations” were underway in Iran as part of joint American-Israeli strikes targeting what he called “imminent threats from the Iranian regime” that “directly endangers the United States, our troops, our bases overseas, and our allies throughout the world.”
Trump said the United States Military had begun a “massive and ongoing operation” aimed at destroying Iran’s missile stockpiles and dismantling its missile production capabilities, vowing they would be “totally, again, obliterated.”
According to reporting cited by Fox News Chief National Security Correspondent Jennifer Griffin, the United States deployed Tomahawk missiles and new “one-way attack drones” in the initial wave of strikes. The targets reportedly included Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facilities, naval sites, and underground locations believed to be linked to Iran’s nuclear program.
Griffin reported that officials described the campaign as a multi-day operation involving hundreds of targets, with Iranian air defenses “effectively suppressed” through what was characterized as a “multi geographic command and control” strategy.
Iran launched retaliatory strikes against Israel, prompting air raid sirens to sound across the country. The Israeli Defence Forces said missiles were launched from Iran toward Israeli territory and that the Israeli Air Force was working to intercept and neutralize the threats.
Iranian state media also claimed missile and drone strikes targeted U.S. bases across the region, though a full accounting of those claims has not been confirmed by the United States.
Israel confirmed its participation in the joint operation, stating that it struck “hundreds of targets” in western Iran under what it called Operation Roaring Lion. Reported targets included missile launchers and senior regime leadership figures, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Masoud Pezeshkian, though it remains unclear which strikes were successful.
Exiled Iranian Crown Prince Reza Pahlavi described the U.S.-led military action as a “humanitarian intervention” aimed at the regime and “its machinery of killing,” not the Iranian people. He urged members of Iran’s military and security services to abandon what he called the regime’s “collapsing” leadership and encouraged civilians to remain calm and stay indoors amid the ongoing strikes.
