VP Vance blames US war on Iran for Republican defeat in midterm elections

Vice President J.D. Vance has blamed the Iran war for the Republican rout in Tuesday's midterm elections that saw Democrats seize in control of both the House and the Senate. In a long post on X, he said, the reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night. If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next six years was worth it, then do so. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start here. Kimberly, so the vice president, as we heard a little earlier, already pointing to the Iran war as a factor in the Republicans' huge losses. Is this an acknowledgment within the White House that the conflict has become a political liability? Well, there were always differences of opinion when it came to foreign entanglements between the U.S. president and the vice president, and this is really being seen as J.D. Vance's I told you so moment. Now, while there is a lot of finger-pointing going on, there's no question that the U.S. president is trying to deflect the blame, something that his own vice president is not allowing him to do. Now, that's part of it. Partially, because we know that there were private conversations between the two where the U.S. president was warned against starting a foreign war, given the fact that that was one of his major campaign promises, that he would do just the opposite of what he did. So the other issue in all of this is that Donald Trump made himself the center of the midterm campaign, saying to voters that they need to— Pretend he's on the ballot, and that's exactly what they did, and they rejected his choice to start the war with Iran, as well as the high costs that resulted from not just that, but also his tariff policies. Now, as we have been talking about, the president, or rather the vice president, J.D. Vance, has said that this is the reason that they believe that they lost, but there is a lot of soul-searching that is going on within the Republican Party right now, but it's very clear that... The message that was sent by the voters was an anti-President Trump vote.