Republican lawmakers who spent four years attacking Biden over gas prices have gone mostly silent as prices spike above $4.50 per gallon during the Iran war — instead calling for patience rather than blaming the administration for wartime fuel costs. This shifts a core campaign message that GOP politicians used heavily in 2020-2024 when prices were rising under Biden. The silence exposes what Democrats argue is bad-faith messaging: gas prices were a moral outrage when they happened to benefit criticism of a Democratic president, but become understandable wartime consequences under a Republican one.