Trump says Vance was right about Iran war, while trying to frame the missing point to his advantage
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President Donald Trump conceded that Vice President JD Vance was correct to connect the Iran war with Republican losses in the midterms, but he quickly shifted to argue that Vance left out a crucial point that Trump says matters more.
President Donald Trump told reporters in West Palm Beach that Vice President JD Vance was right to link the Iran war to the Republican Party's midterm defeats, but he added that the vice president left out an important detail. > "He was right. Other than one thing. He should have made one other statement, one which I think is very important," Trump said, before boarding Air Force One. The president then repeated his claim that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a global danger, presenting the conflict as a historic success because, in his telling, it kept Iran from obtaining such weapons. Vance had posted on X that the war was the main reason for the GOP's losses after Democrats took control of Congress and many state governorships. A White House aide said the president had been briefed on Vance's comments and had no issues with them, and the administration later retweeted Vance's post. In a separate interview on CBS’s “60 Minutes,” Trump echoed Vance's view that voters were unhappy about the war and rising gasoline prices, and he suggested the conflict had been won and would keep restricting Iran's capabilities.