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JD Vance blames Iran war for midterm thumping.
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Vance → blame → thumping
Is he really blaming Trump?
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he → blame → Trump
VP's public disavowal of the war is clear sign he's positioning himself for 2028 presidential run
U.S. Vice-President JD Vance is blaming the Republican Party's decisive defeat in the midterm elections on the war that President Donald Trump launched against Iran.
Vance's comments, on the morning after the Republicans lost control of both the House and the Senate, are a sharp rebuke of one of Trump's most consequential actions.
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Republicans → position → actions
"The real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone," Vance wrote in a lengthy post Wednesday on X. "The reason we lost is the war.
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we → lose → X.
The president himself said so last night.
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president → say → ?
It's far from clear that Trump is admitting the war cost his party the midterms.
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war → admit → midterms
In his comments on election night, the president blamed the results on the fact his name wasn't on the ballot and maintained launching the war was the right call.
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launching → blame → war
Asked by reporters to respond to Vance's post on Wednesday, Trump pulled his punches somewhat.
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Trump → ask → punches
"I think it's largely true, because [the Iran war] drove the gasoline up a little bit short-term," he said at an event to show off construction progress of the new White House ballroom.
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he → think → ballroom
"But at the same time, if I had it to do again, I'd have to do it again, because long-term, it's the only answer.
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it → have → it
You can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon.
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Iran → let → weapon
Vance questions political price of war
The full scale of the Republican defeat will only become clear when all House races are called, but it's already being described in historic terms.
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it → question → terms
This is only the third time in the past 80 years that a sitting U.S. president has seen his party lose control of both chambers in a midterm election.
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party → sit → election
While Trump is insisting the war was worth it, Vance, who is considered a likely contender for president in 2028, is questioning its political price.
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who → insist → price
"If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so," Vance said in the post.
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Vance → like → post
A former Marine who served in the Iraq war, Vance had been critical of that conflict and said after becoming vice-president that a Trump administration would not send troops into the "open-ended conflicts" of the past.
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administration → serve → past
After Trump launched the war with Iran this past spring, Vance was noticeably quiet in speaking about it, a conspicuous change for a politician known for being a pugnacious defender of the president.
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Vance → launch → president
This summer, Vance tried to put forward a rationale for the conflict, telling conservative podcast host Megyn Kelly in an interview, "If we transformed the Middle East, this is fundamentally worth it."
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this → try → East
In his Wednesday post, Vance laid out the top four things Republicans have to do to win back disaffected voters, based on focus group research by a pollster he did not name:
- End the war.
- Focus on cost of living/inflation.
- Put America first.
- Change the country's relationship with Israel.
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he → lay → Israel
Unlike Trump, Vance declined to endorse Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu for re-election in that country's recent vote and this summer publicly chastised members of Israel's government for opposing Trump's efforts to resolve the war with Iran.
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Vance → decline → Iran
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