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How Trump’s unconvincing narrative on Iran lost him the US midterms
Donald Trump and the Republicans struggle to spin a historic defeat in the US midterms.
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Donald Trump and the Republicans struggle to spin a historic defeat in the US midterms.
US Vice President JD Vance blames the war for the midterm rout as Democrats prepare to use Congress to rein it in.
Speaking to Fox News following the midterm elections, US President Donald Trump admitted that inflation was likely one reason Republicans did poorly. Many Americans have been frustrated with how the Iran war has pushed up prices, including at the gasoline pump, especially given that Trump had campaigned for his second term on a pledge of “no new wars”, as Ellen Gainsford explains.