Trump says he doesn’t disagree with Vance that Iran war fueled GOP losses
President Donald Trump on Sunday said he does not disagree with Vice President JD Vance's assessment that the Republicans' sweeping midterm losses were caused by the Iran war, rising costs and U.S.
Key points
- VANCE'S SCATHING IRAN WAR POSTMORTEM PUTS POTENTIAL 2028 GOP SHOWDOWN IN FOCUS: 'EVERYONE KNOWS WHY' "I said, ‘You write what you want.
- He said the administration's decision to engage in war with Iran was far more important than the political consequences of losing the midterm elections, arguing that while the decision may be unpopular, the alternative would have been allowing Tehran to obtain a nuclear weapon.
- Asked whether he knew Vance was planning to share his take in a post on X, Trump said the vice president was fully transparent with him beforehand "He asked me what do I think," Trump said.
By the way, what are you going to write?’" Trump added that the one thing he wished Vance would have done differently was share whether the vice president would have made the decision to strike Iran again, given his role in the administration's decision-making process.
Additional details
- "My answer is an emphatic yes, because you can't let Iran have a nuclear weapon," Trump said.
- "I don’t disagree with it," Trump said during a CBS 60 Minutes interview.
- "The only thing I wish he would've said there, if he felt it," Trump said.
- "The real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone," Vance wrote on X.
- Democrats flipped at least seven Senate seats and more than two dozen House districts.
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