Vice President J.D. Vance on Wednesday blamed the Iran War for the Republican Party’s sweeping midterm losses the night before. “The reason we lost is the war,” Vance wrote in a long post on X. The vice president said a pollster had told him that many Republican voters were turning against the GOP over the unpopular conflict.
Donald Trump Jr., the president’s eldest son, expressed total agreement with Vance’s post. President Donald Trump, in a Tuesday night interview with the Wall Street Journal , acknowledged that the war contributed to the Republicans’ poor performance but denied he regretted launching it.
Iranian officials also interpreted the election as a rebuke of Trump and the war, now in its ninth month. “Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO WAR, and we endorse this message,” said Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, a chief negotiator.