Vance blames war in Iran for Republican midterm losses

Vice President JD Vance blamed Republicans’ sweeping midterm losses on the Iran War, which Israel and the U.S. jointly launched in February, in a statement Wednesday morning.

“The reason we lost is the war,” Vance wrote on X. “The president himself said so last night.”

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In a post of more than 600 words analyzing the midterm election results, the vice president played down the role of the economy in the overwhelming Democratic wins across the country.

“One of the pollsters I really respect told me that our economic messaging wasn’t sharp enough down the stretch. I’m sure that’s true,” Vance said. “But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone.”

For his part, Trump said Wednesday that Vance's take was "largely true, because it drove up the gasoline a little bit short-term."

In his remarks the morning after Election Day, after spending several minutes discussing his White House ballroom project and signing a beam, Trump reiterated multiple times that the U.S. couldn't let Iran have a nuclear weapo...