{"id":4049,"date":"2026-11-09T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4049"},"modified":"2026-11-09T09:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T04:00:11","slug":"trump-blames-iran-war-anti-israel-sentiment-for-election-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=4049","title":{"rendered":"Trump blames Iran war, anti-Israel sentiment for election losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><strong>US President Donald Trump has attributed the Republican Party\u2019s sweeping losses in last week\u2019s midterm elections to public opposition to the war with Iran, rising gasoline prices and growing anti-Israel sentiment.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with CBS News\u2019 60 Minutes on Sunday, Trump acknowledged that the conflict with Iran had damaged Republicans politically, particularly amid rising fuel costs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey didn\u2019t like the war. They didn\u2019t like the fact that gasoline went up,\u201d Trump said, adding that there was also an \u201cincredibly\u201d strong dislike of Israel among voters.<\/p>\n<p>He identified opposition to the war, higher gasoline prices and negative public sentiment towards Israel as the primary factors behind the Republican Party\u2019s electoral setback.<\/p>\n<p>Despite acknowledging the political consequences of the conflict, Trump defended his decision to launch military strikes against Iran, insisting he would make the same decision again.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy answer is an emphatic yes because you can\u2019t let Iran have a nuclear weapon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Trump also declared that the United States had won the war and claimed Tehran was interested in reaching an agreement with Washington.<\/p>\n<p>He suggested that the recent elections had complicated diplomatic efforts, saying a deal could have been reached before the vote.<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether he planned to intensify military operations following the election results, Trump ruled out seeking further escalation.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not looking to. I don\u2019t think there\u2019s any reason to,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The US president also claimed that Israel would not exist today without American military strikes against Iran\u2019s nuclear facilities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US President Donald Trump has attributed the Republican Party\u2019s sweeping losses in last week\u2019s midterm elections to public opposition to the war with Iran, rising gasoline prices and growing anti-Israel sentiment. In an interview with CBS News\u2019 60 Minutes on Sunday, Trump acknowledged that the conflict with Iran had damaged Republicans politically, particularly amid rising fuel costs. \u201cThey didn\u2019t like the war. They didn\u2019t like the fact that gasoline went up,\u201d Trump said, adding that there was also an \u201cincredibly\u201d strong dislike of Israel among voters. He identified opposition to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"gutentor_comment":0,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}