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Posted on 11/08/2026 5:11:20 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
President Donald Trump took a swipe at Vice President JD Vance Sunday evening for blaming the GOP’s disastrous midterm elections on the Iran War, saying that “a lot of people didn’t like his comments.”
Tuesday’s results gave Democrats reasons to celebrate across the country, leaving Republicans grim about seemingly everything except for narrowly winning the gubernatorial and Senate races in Florida. Enough congressional seats flipped blue — despite a Trump-backed gerrymandering effort pushed in multiple red states — to turn over majority control of both the U.S. House and Senate.
Many other state and federal races previously assessed as safely red turned blue by large margins, with an especially shocking result in Texas, where Democrats swept all statewide races, numerous judicial races, and flipped control of the Texas State House.
Unsurprisingly, Trump was infuriated by his party’s collapse and the pending Democratic-majority Congress, raging on his Truth Social account to lash out at his foes and reclaim prior victories. There has been an exodus of several top officials who resigned from the DOJ and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles was summarily replaced with Stephen Miller on Friday.
Friday.
The morning after the election, Vance posted a lengthy and scathing postmortem blaming the Iran War for causing the GOP’s collapse.
“The reason we lost is the war,” Vance bluntly wrote. “The president himself said so last night.”
“If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so,” Vance challenged. “Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest. But everyone knows why we lost. And any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.”
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The buck always stops somewhere else
Still trying your best to trigger self-destructive bickering, I see,
JD doesnt work for Trump.
He can say whatever he wants.
Actually I saw the clip of Trump on 60 minutes and he in fact AGREED with Vance that the war in Iran, the cost of gas, and the hatred of Israel cost him the midterms..and he emphasized again that he if he had to do this again he would because he did not want Iran to get a nuke and he thinks Vance would agree
Where is the swipe? The media is a joke as usual.
Doesn't sound like a hit or a swipe to me. Just stating the facts. A lot of people didn't like what Vance said. So what?
He can say whatever he wants.
And he's an elected official so he can't get fired.
Exit polls said only 1 out of 5 was for that war. Trump is where he is because of it. He needs to look inward once in a while.
Who cares if his comments were “liked”? A lot of people didn’t like watching Ohio and Texas go blue.
>>”JD doesnt work for Trump.
He can say whatever he wants.”
Sure, he can be disloyal towards the man who chose him to be his VP if he wants to. And he can also self-destruct politically if he wants to. That’s his choice.
People tend to frown on disloyalty and opportunists.
The Iran war is sacred. He needs to blame immigration enforcement instead.
Honestly, Trump should resign over this election. But also so that Vance can give him a Presidential pardon to keep the Shitocrats from charging him with more made up crimes.
I still say having lived through the Vietnam War years that the VP and President then and now have conflicting needs.
Humphrey desperately wanted to craft his own program for ending the Vietnam War and countering the Robert Kennedy, Eldridge Cleaver, Eugene McCarthy wings before the 1968 election. But the alpha male egotist LBJ refused, insisting Humphrey just act as a yes man.
If JD Vance wants to win he has to risk losing the alpha male Trump’s favor but gaining the votes for 2028. Millions in polls say they are against the Iran War and want it to end right away. Trump can’t openly say such a thing because he has to lead the war effort.
I’m not saying I am favoring him, Mario or DeSantis. Just appraising IMO.
Don’t worry, he will be gone in two years.
It’s less than a week from the midterms, but the wheels are already falling off the wagon.
I’m in the camp that thinks the war was a mistake, but Vance was part of the decision-making and his craven attempt to distance himself from the consequences of that decision is pathetic.
That’s right. He stated a fact and for some reason they are all dog piling on Vance. I guess they have to build some backstory to bolster their argument for impeachment of Vance as well.
Maybe the fact that the Republicans up for election were worthless, ran horrible campaigns , had ZERO ground game, were outspent by their Democrat opponents 2 to 1 and had to fight horrible media sabotage may have had a lot to do with the losses too
It was not a policy-driven election. All the people that have hated Trump for 10 years turned out + the usual Dem electorate. Only usual Republican electorate did.
“but Vance was part of the decision-making and his craven attempt to distance himself from the consequences of that decision is pathetic.”
I see it the same way. It was spineless. Even worse, lately he’s been sounding more like a man who went to Yale, rather than an aww schucks hillbilly.
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