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Vice President JD Vance delivered a blunt assessment of Republicans' sweeping midterm losses Wednesday morning, pointing at the Iran war as the driving force behind the party's election-night defeats. "But the real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone," said Vance on X."The reason we lost is the war. 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. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest. But everyone knows why...

Vice President JD Vance, who’s widely expected to be eyeing a 2028 run, pinned the GOP’s massive midterm losses on the Iran war that President Donald Trump started.

They don't have a veto proof majority,they dont have enough votes to remove him if impeached, and there are lots of ways President Trump can govern by executive order and bypass them completely. Keep fighting!

Do not be distraught, and do not worry. God is watching over this nation, and nothing unfolding today is outside His providence.Like many of you, I watched the polls and the media spin leading into this week predicting a blue wave. But we must remember the fundamental reality: Donald J. Trump was not on that ballot. Midterm dynamics are an entirely different animal, and the knee-jerk panic on our side is completely unwarranted.When you look at American history with a cool head and an understanding of executive power, a hostile Congress has often been the exact crucible that turns a...

2026 Midterm elections: Most Important IssueSource: CBS News November 3–4, 2026 Economy 39%State of Democracy 32%Immigration 14%Health Care 8%Foreign Policy 4%Key Takeaway: The economy ranks first at 39%, followed by the state of democracy at 32%. Together, these two issues account for 71% of respondents. TARRIFS?AP Voter Poll: The economy and the state of democracy are voters' top issues By — Associated Press. — Published on Nov 3, 2026 Most voters believe Trump's policies have harmed the U.S. economy Relatively few voters have positive things to say about Trump's economic leadership. About two-thirds of U.S. midterm voters say Trump's policies...

Today’s young voters are the most diverse generation in American history, and their choices at the ballot box in the 2026 midterms reflect that diversity... 77% of young women voted for a Democratic U.S. House candidate in the 2026 midterms, compared to 65% of young men. That is a major shift for young men: in 2024, according to that year’s AP VoteCast data, 56% of young men supported President Trump...Across Race and Gender, Strong Vote for Democrats in the 2026 Midterm ElectionsThe national vote choice for U.S. House candidates of young voters (ages 18-29), by race/ethnicity and gender. The youth...

Trump hit the network in multiple Truth Social posts, attacking Fox’s polls as “always the worst”; mocking some recent softness in the network’s year-over-year ratings trends and accusing Fox of being “AGAINST” him. Just before midnight, Trump directly placed blame on Fox News for the Republican party’s failure to hold on to the US House and Senate, writing that “FoxNews bears responsibility for these losses by constantly and consistently putting on the Dumocrat opposition, and worse.” Trump then called into Fox’s election coverage around midnight and directly criticized the network’s polls as “terrible,” telling the network’s employees: “You ought to...

Nov 4 (Reuters) - Iran's government savoured the stinging rebuke delivered to Donald Trump in the midterm elections, declaring voters had rejected the war launched by the US president even as Tehran remained on high alert for the possibility of renewed strikes. "Conscience or the cost of living, Americans said NO TO WAR, and ‌we endorse this message," Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, Iran's chief negotiator, posted on X, adding that Washington should not ignore public opinion by attacking his country again. Iran's Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei said in a written statement that US hostility would persist regardless of which...

Vice President JD Vance offered a postmortem on Wednesday morning explicitly blaming President Donald Trump’s war in Iran for the GOP’s generational wipeout in the midterm elections, losing races from Texas to Kansas in deep red states. Vance, who is widely seen as Trump’s heir apparent, saw his stock drop in prediction markets as Trump administration outsider Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis’s (R) numbers rose following the disastrous election results. As Vance works to distance himself from the war in Iran, he notably cited Trump himself, writing, “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.”...

A small majority of Jews in Michigan backed the Democratic Party’s winning candidate, Abdul El-Sayed, over Republican Mike Rogers in Tuesday’s Senate race*** El-Sayed has been one of the most outspoken critics of Israel this election season, with eliminating aid to Israel being one of his most central campaign messages. Fifty-seven percent of Michigan Jews still backed him — though, tellingly, 78% of them supported the Democrats’ gubernatorial candidate Jocelyn Benson, according to an exit poll of early voters. El-Sayed’s was likely lifted by less affiliated Jewish voters, who make up about half of the community’s 110,000 members, according to...

@JDVance One of the things the data analysts on our side obsessed over was "composition"—whether the electorate looked close enough to 2024 for Republicans to win. And despite polls that showed a Democrat blowout, the data kept on telling us the same story: in some states turnout was merely OK, in other states it was downright amazing, and in no state was it catastrophic. There was a genuine sense of optimism on our team: our people were showing up. So, I asked the smartest data guy I know, does that mean we're going to shock the world? "No," he told...

Trump: “I wasn’t on the Ballot and if I was, we would have won IN A LANDSLIDE!”

It was bad, but it could have been worse and, as always, there are lessons we can take from it. n 2022, Republicans thought there would be a Red Tsunami. In fact, there was a Red piddle that didn’t even rise to the level of a puddle. But yesterday, Democrats got that Tsunami. They flipped both the Senate and the House and did so massively. According to The New York Times, Democrats currently have 54-44 control of the Senate and 228-139 control of the House. Both numbers could improve for Democrats in the next days and hours. That’s not a...

Right now the Democrats have 54 Senate seats. There are two elections not decided yet: Alaska and Mississippi. Suppose they win those then we get to 56. In 2028, the GOP has to defend 19 Senate seats vs 15 Democratic seats. The GOP seats are from: AL, AK, AR, FL, ID, IN, IA, KS, KY, LA, MO, NC, ND, OH, OK, SC, SD, UT, and WI. It is very conceivable the Democrats can flip four of those from perhaps the Midwest seats and NC. I do not see any vulnerable Democratic seats except for perhaps NV and GA. Fetterman is...

This captures the 2026 election season in a nutshell. Was it worth it?

Tuesday’s midterm elections are shaping up to be the “biggest national wipeout for Republicans since 2006, when voters brutally punished the GOP for an ill-advised and poorly planned war in the Middle East,” The Federalist’s CEO and co-founder Sean Davis said in a post on X. In 2006, 56 percent of voters disapproved of the Iraq War, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of a national exit poll. The majority of those voters backed Democrat candidates, 80 percent to 18 percent. Twenty years later, Pew released a survey in October that found 65 percent of Americans disapproved of how...

As Republicans see electoral losses across the country, about 74 percent of voters said the Iran war was a “crucial or major” factor in their vote for Congress, and Democrats won 63 percent of those voters, according to NBC exit polls. Only 26 percent said the war was a “minor factor or not a factor,” 70 percent of whom voted Republican and 28 percent of whom voted Democrat. The divide on the war became even greater when voters were asked whether the Trump administration made the “right decision” or “wrong decision” on “military action against Iran. Overall, 37 percent said...

President Donald Trump spent two months urging Americans to pretend he was on the ballot. On Tuesday, they did just that. Voters delivered a stunning rebuke to Trump’s party that rivaled anything Republicans had suffered in 50 years, defeats on ruby-red turf that Trump won handily just two years ago, where he has dominated politics for nearly a decade and against candidates he had in some cases handpicked. Not only did Democrats flip Senate and governor seats in red states, but at times by eye-popping margins. “The message is very clear and very simple here. It was a complete repudiation...

Will Trump step aside and put JD in charge? Trump has nothing to gain by staying around except to be pounded into the ground daily.

Where to begin when it seems it's the end? This 2026 Republican loss of both House AND Senate was totally preventable and inexcusably unconscionable. The blame is fairly evenly spread but the fact remains that this should never have happened at a time when America's enemies, foreign and domestic, were on the ropes gasping their seeming last breaths after the best President we've had since Reagan overcame all obstacles to finish them off - using up the last of his mortal lifetime to do so. Not that Donald Trump is blameless. We've seen the signs of diminishment that advanced age...