The Vice President didn’t wait to pat himself on the back and assign blame elsewhere for the GOP’s electoral wipeout. Amid the rubble on the morning after the election, JD Vance posted a mini-essay on X.com to pin the defeat entirely on the war in Iran and suggest that ending it is a political necessity. By doing so in public, Mr. Vance signals desperation to Iran’s regime, undermining his boss at a critical moment in the war.
The selective blame is no accident. unidentified leakers to the press throughout the Iran war have suggested he opposed it While the Vice President has become a true believer on tariffs and hard-line immigration restriction. When Mr.
Vance now writes, “To the people who are pissed off and want to say, ‘I told you so’: you’re right, you did tell us so,” he’s thinking of himself.
Citing unlisted data from an unnamed friend, Mr. President Trump has treated an end to the U.S. blockade of Iranian ports and military operations as a U.S. concession for which Iran would have to concede much in return. The U.S. success in the Strait has lately gained Mr. Trump leverage. Now, by announcing that his party needs an end to the war, Mr. Vance helps transform that into an Iranian concession for which the U.S. will be required to pay. Nothing on Mr. That’s the message of the Jews-on-the-mind podcast ecosystem promoted by Mr. Vance and led by his friend and ally Tucker Carlson. positioning himself to run for President, Mr While the Vice President abandons ship. Trump has a decision to make. The U.S. is now winning in Hormuz and the blockade is working. But having paid such a high political price, will he take Mr. Vance’s advice to end the war now on terms that look to the world like an Iranian victory?
Vance wrote that the Republican voters who strayed claim they could be won back if the GOP would “1) End the war. Vance’s list of ways to win back Trump 2024 voters gives evidence of any self-reflection, least of all “4) Change our relationship to Israel. The exit poll shows only 4% of voters rank foreign-policy issues first.
He also praised the “political advice” that counseled a “diplomatic resolution to the conflict”—his own position, which dragged out the war after its initial six weeks with a worthless April cease-fire and June deal that Iran immediately violated.
