President Donald Trump said Sunday that soaring gas prices could go “a little bit higher” before the midterm elections, signaling the Republican Party faces an uphill battle on economic messaging ahead of November. 

Trump predicted that in the long term, energy costs will come down significantly when the United States finishes its war on Iran. In the meantime, gas costs could remain “the same, or maybe a little bit higher” ahead of the November midterm elections, the president said during an interview on Fox News’s Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo.