Pence delivers scathing rebuke of Vance's Iran war assessment, blames Trump policies for GOP losses
While the high cost of living and the war in Iran were key issues in the midterms, the Fox News Voter Poll also highlighted that 55% of respondents said government corruption was a "crucial" factor in their vote for Congress, with another 36% saying it was a major factor.
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- frustrated with the lack of progress, frustrated with the price of fuel at the pump." RUBIO'S DEFENSE OF TRUMP'S IRAN WAR DRAWS SHARP CONTRAST WITH VANCE'S MIDTERM BLAME But the former vice president emphasized "the reasons for this midterm election were much more complex than gasoline prices or the war in Iran.
- support for Israel, I get the feeling sometimes they're just using that as a thinly veiled excuse for their antisemitism." ‘HE BLAMED THE JEWS’: GOP CONGRESSMAN LEVELS EXPLOSIVE ACCUSATION AGAINST JD VANCE OVER ELECTION POSTMORTEM Vance, in an assessment the morning after Election Day, wrote, "The reason we lost is the war.
- "If Republican voters cared what Mike Pence had to say, he wouldn’t have had to drop out of the presidential race months before the Iowa caucuses." The former vice….
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- Pence said he's "very troubled at the way that criticism of Israel on the left and on the right collapses too often into antisemitism and antisemitic rhetoric.
- Pence argued that "I don't think you can ignore the air of corruption that's emerged around this administration, the self-dealing.
- It is the only democracy in the Arab world," Pence a longtime strong supporter of Israel, emphasized.
- So, I respectfully disagree with my successor in that regard." "If the world knows nothing else, the world should know that America stands with Israel.
- "As Americans saw the politics of appeasement that the administration embraced, one negotiation after another, I think people became...
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