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JD Vance’s response to the midterm defeat suggests a once-untouchable Republican consensus may be starting to crack.
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JD Vance’s response to the midterm defeat suggests a once-untouchable Republican consensus may be starting to crack.
After the hard defeat of the Republican Party in the midterms, in which they lost all control of the Congress, their followers seek to blame those who are responsible. Vice President JD Vance and other Republican supporters have blamed the war in Iran, a position that has been taken as a distance with President Donald Trump for the 2028 elections. Expand the information our correspondent Carolina Valladares.
After the midterm debacle, Donald Trump and the Republicans agree to attribute the electoral barefoot to the war in Iran and the economic impact for the Americans. Inside the party, however, several point their finger directly at the president, while he seeks to disengage from defeat. Trump argues that "it was worth it" to open the conflict, but potentially presidential figures, such as J. D. Vance, Marco Rubio or Ron DeSantis, try to take a distance.
In our Context section we analyze the internal struggles and differences in Donald Trump's administration from the mid-term elections on Tuesday. Vice President J.D. Vance is responsible for the war with Iran and its defenders as a cause of the Republican defeat, while party members want to open the way to the presidential succession of 2028.
U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance took Wednesday, November 4th his distance from the war in Iran led by President Donald Trump, questioning the relevance of such a decision and imputing to the conflict the heavy setbacks suffered by the Republicans the previous day in the mid-term elections to Congress. The details of Matthieu Mabin, an international columnist in France 24.
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