President Donald Trump is standing behind Vice President JD Vance’s assessment of the Republican Party’s devastating midterm election performance, acknowledging that the war with Iran played a major role in the GOP’s losses. However, the president is making one thing unmistakably clear: He has no regrets about the decision to confront Tehran militarily.
During an interview with CBS’s 60 Minutes that aired Sunday, Trump was asked whether he agreed with Vance’s explanation for why Republicans suffered a major setback at the ballot box.
“I don’t disagree with it,” Trump responded.
The president’s answer offered a rare acknowledgment of the political consequences of his administration’s foreign policy decisions. But while Trump agreed with the vice president’s diagnosis, he refused to suggest that avoiding an electoral defeat should have taken priority over confronting Iran’s nuclear ambitions.
