US Vice-President JD Vance has blamed the Iran war and voter dissatisfaction with Washington's relationship with Israel for the Republican Party's defeat in Tuesday's midterm elections.
\n\n"The reason we lost is the war," Vance said in a lengthy post on social media on Wednesday, a day after voters handed Democrats control of both chambers of Congress.
\n\nVance said a pollster had identified four reasons given by people who voted for Donald Trump in 2024 but had since turned away from the Republicans. Among them were demands to "End the war" and to "Change our relationship to Israel".
\n\nHis comments offered a blunt assessment of the factors behind the Republican defeat and appeared to signal some distance between Vance and the president as attention begins to turn towards the 2028 election cycle.
\n\nThe Vice-President's remarks came hours after Trump acknowledged that the Iran war had partly contributed to his party's losses.
\n\n"The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night," Vance wrote on X.
\n\nHe also challenged supporters of the military campaign to defend its political cost. "If you'd like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was…
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