How did the Iran-Contra scandal hurt Ronald Reagan's image?

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Sim W.
Aug 17, 2017

People thought he was involved in the scandal and his popularity declined

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Republicans lost the 1986 Midterm elections because of the Iran-Contra scandal and they lost the Senate for the first time since the fifties. The scandal was based on the fact that weapons had been sold to Iran(with the help of Israel) in order to finance the Contras in Nicaragua.

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