Mark Levin rejects the view that the war caused the blowout and blames those who sought off-ramps
Mark LevinHost of The Mark Levin Show, on his radio program
On his radio show, Levin says critics want people to believe Republicans lost because Trump took military steps to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, and blames Vance's memorandum of understanding and those who sought off-ramps for prolonging the war.
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Vance says the reason Republicans lost the November 3, 2026 midterms is the war with Iran, and that many people who voted for Trump and Vance in 2024 voted for Democrats in 2026.
“Now, these very same people want you to believe that we had an electoral blowout because the president of the United States took military steps to prevent the Iranian Nazi regime from getting nuclear weapons and using them against us”
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Vance blames the Iran war for Republicans' midterm losses; Trump says he would do it again
The morning after Democrats won both chambers of Congress in the November 3, 2026 midterms, Vice President JD Vance wrote that the reason Republicans lost is the war with Iran. Trump called that largely true but said he would make the same decision again.
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Chris Menahan, publisher of the site Information Liberation, posted an excerpt of Levin's November 4 radio show with his own critical caption. In the excerpt, Levin says Vance's memorandum of understanding with Iran was defective, rejects the view that Republicans lost because of the war, and blames those who sought off-ramps for prolonging it.
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Media Matters for America, a progressive media watchdog, collects transcribed remarks by conservative hosts and commentators who answered Vance's post, among them Mark Levin on his November 4 radio show, Marc Thiessen on Fox News's Special Report and Brian Kilmeade on Fox & Friends. The article argues that Vance's account is self-serving and criticizes the hosts.
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Levin asks why the war is still going on and answers that the VP came up with a memorandum of understanding that was utterly defective. He says the opening of the military operation was spectacular but that the United States kept pumping the brakes, and that some argued for arming the Iranian people and removing the regime.
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He continues that they want people to believe the blowout came because the war went on too long, when "it's their heroes that caused it to go on too long," constantly looking for off-ramps. Later in the excerpt he says Trump made the decision.
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The reference point is the Trump administration's decision to go to war with Iran and keep fighting it, judged by its political cost: Vance's claim that the war is the reason Republicans lost the November 3, 2026 midterms. Levin rejects the claim that the war cost Republicans the election, describes it as steps to keep the Iranian regime from nuclear weapons, and blames the negotiations and those seeking off-ramps for prolonging it. That defends the decision to go to war.
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