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MIKE PENCE: GOP Lost Midterms Because Voters Wanted More War
Republicans have spent this week coming up with lots of explanations for why the GOP got smacked in the midterms. Some, like JD Vance’s, hit the nail on the head. Others, like Ben Shapiro blaming the “execution” of the Iran War, not the war itself, were peak brain rot. Then there’s Mike Pence.
The rabidly globalist former vice president published one of the most dishonest op-eds we have ever read on Thursday, writing in the Wall Street Journal that Republicans’ “appeasement” of Iran caused the blue wave. We are not joking. He really said that.
According to Pence, the GOP could have won if only Donald Trump had done more war. That analysis came despite the facts that only 27% of Americans supported the war when it started, and 74% of midterm voters said it was “crucial” or “a major factor” in how they cast their ballots. Regular people hate this Israel First war, and that is why the Democrats won. Pence just doesn’t care; pleasing big-donor special interests is his only true concern. Read more.