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Presidential hopeful Vance appears to question Iran war after polls debacle

US Vice President JD Vance has blamed the war on Iran for his party’s withering midterms defeat, suggesting that the conflict may not have been worth ceding control of the United States Congress to Democrats. “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night,” Vance wrote in a lengthy post on X. “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.” “Everyone knows why we lost.

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