Donald Trump believes that the reason for the loss of the Republican Party in the mid-term elections in the United States was not the war with Iran, but the increase in gasoline prices that provoked it. He stated this in an interview with Fox News. Trump refused to see the election results as a personal defeat. "People agree with what I'm doing about Iran, but they probably weren't ready to deal with the short-term consequences of higher gas prices. I understand that. I don't agree with that, I wouldn't want to consider it my defeat," the American president responded.