JD Vance said on Wednesday that the war against Iran doomed the Republican party in the US midterm elections, which are widely seen as a sweeping rebuke of Donald Trump’s presidency. The intervention signals that the vice-president, once the face of the Trump administration’s deal-making efforts with Tehran, seeks to distance himself from the unpopular conflict ahead of a possible 2028 White House run. The president himself said so last night,” Vance said in a lengthy post on X.
Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest.” “Everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there,” added Vance, who had reportedly been sceptical about the unresolved war, which Trump launched in February alongside Israel.
Trump had made a similar statement on Tuesday to the Wall Street Journal as his party faced historic defeat in the election. But he also hedged and said he had no regrets about starting the conflict. I would have done it again,” he said.
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