Vance publicly broke from President Donald Trump’s defence of the Iran war on Wednesday (November 4, 2026) after the Republican Party’s deep losses in the midterm elections, attempting to distance himself from voters’ clear rebuke of the President as the Vice President faces questions about his own political ambitions. J.D.
Vance, who has said he would decide after the election whether to run for President in 2028, issued a lengthy social media post blaming the unpopular conflict with Iran for the GOP’s (Grand Old Party) drubbing. Vance said, “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. The White House did not immediately respond to a message seeking comment on Wednesday (November 4, 2026) about the Vice President’s post.
Mr. Mr. But arguing that the war was worth it is what Mr. Trump repeatedly did on the campaign trail and continued to do in interviews as election results came in. Mr.
Trump told The New York Times late Tuesday that the decision to go to war this year was “very wise” and told Politico it was “an absolutely correct one.
Most of those voters dissatisfied with the Iran war backed the Democratic candidate in their U.S. House race, but the survey suggested the Iran war was not the leading issue for most voters. Nearly all voters who backed the Democratic candidate in their U.S. A former Marine who served in Iraq, Mr.
About six in 10 voters said the U.S. made the “wrong decision” in taking military action against Iran, according to the AP Voter Poll, a survey of more than 1,00,000 voters in the United States. Only about one-third of voters said the war in Iran was “crucial” to their vote for Congress, well below the roughly half who said that about the cost of living or government corruption. House race said going to war with Iran was the “wrong decision,” while roughly eight in 10 voters who backed the Republican candidate said it was the “right decision. Vance had been critical of that conflict and said after becoming Vice President that a Trump administration would not send troops into the “open-ended conflicts” of the past.
