President Donald Trump said Sunday that "a lot of people" disagreed with Vice President J.J. Dee Vance that the Iran war is the reason the Republicans lost the midterm elections. Trump implied that Vance should have shown more support for the war.
Trump, speaking from Florida, said Vance's writing about analyzing the results of the midterm elections did not cause a rift in their relationship.
However, compared to last week, when he said he largely agreed with his deputy, he was more cautious in his assessment of Vance, according to CNN.
"A lot of people didn't like what he said, but I didn't," Trump said. He was right, except for one thing. He should have made another point; A point that I think is very important: If you had to make this decision again, would you still do the same thing? The answer is yes."
Vance, who had voiced opposition to the Iran war before the war began, stopped short of saying the war was worth its costs in his remarks on Wednesday.
"If you want to argue that this war was worth it, and that losing control of the Senate for the next six years was a price worth paying, go for it," he wrote. They claim the cost was worth it. Agree or disagree, at least this position is honest."
"But everyone knows why we failed," Vance continued. Any honest conversation about where we should go from here needs to start here.