❗️Vance acknowledges historic midterm defeat, asks whether losing Congress for war on Iran was 'worth it' US Vice President JD Vance admitted on Wednesday that widespread voter outrage over the war on Iran directly handed Democrats control of Congress, explicitly challenging war hawks to justify whether losing the Senate for six years was "worth it" for foreign military interventions. Writing on social media following catastrophic Republican midterm losses, Vance dismissed internal claims that weak voter turnout caused the defeat, noting that conservative base participation remained strong. Instead, citing confidential post-election polling, Vance revealed that a massive segment of 2024 Trump-Vance supporters deliberately defected to the Democratic Party. The top demands from these alienated voters to return to the party were ending the war, tackling cost-of-living inflation, adopting an "America First" posture, and fundamentally changing the US relationship to Israel. "The real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone... The reason we lost is the war," Vance wrote, defending political commentators who called for a diplomatic resolution to the conflict. Challenging establishment neoconservatives and proponents of the war policy within the administration, Vance concluded: "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. Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that's at least honest."