USS Lincoln carrier to return to port in San Diego after record-breaking deployment – US politics live

Vessel spent over 260 consecutive days at sea without a port call, a US navy recordHello and welcome to the US politics live blog.The USS Abraham Lincoln will return home to San Diego later today after supporting the Iran war during a record long deployment of 265 uninterrupted days at sea.In remarks in San Antonio, Texas, Donald Trump tried to channel the anti-Muslim racism that helped get him elected in 2016, by skipping straight from a dire warning that Iran would use a nuclear weapon if it had one to the wild, false claim that Barack Obama could have stopped