Vance Boldly Admits Reason GOP Lost Midterms Is Iran War, Crude Slides (Update 11:10ET) : The expected rapid blame-game has begun at the highest levels of the Turmp administration , with Vice President JD Vance on Wednesday morning saying bluntly that the Iran war is 'the reason we lost' midterms .
He had in the opening days of Operation Epic Fury, and just before (per prior NYT reporting), expressed pushback within Oval Office discussions. TREASURY YIELDS EDGE LOWER AS OIL PRICES SLIDE "The war with Iran, inflation, and the US relationship with Israel caused voters to break with the Republican party in the midterm election," Vice President JD Vance says on X, citing a pollster.
And amid coming Demotratic control of the House: US military sources suggest Defence Secretary Hegseth could face impeachment by Democrats or dismissal by Trump over the Iran war , amid growing dissatisfaction within the military, The Times' Larisa Brown reports Crude crashing...