The reason for our defeat is the war." What Trump's party thinks about the mid-term elections - and who is to blame for the defeat The final results of the mid-term elections in the United States have not yet been concluded, but it is already clear that the Republican Party, led by current President Donald Trump, has significantly lost its position and lost control of Congress. Trump himself said that the Republicans lost only because his name was not on the ballot. The party leaders react to this with restraint. Among the senior officials, the most outspoken was Vice President J. Dee Vance, who linked the Republican defeat to the war against Iran launched by the White House. But lower-ranking officials directly call the president "the mastermind of the collapse of the Republicans." Open with VPN | No VPN.