The president of the United States, donald trumprecognized this Wednesday that the military operations initiated against the Islamic Republic of Iran in February constituted a determining factor in the defeat of the Republican Party during the midterm legislative elections.
Trump linked the electoral setback to the economic impact generated by the rise in fuel costs, although he confirmed that he would maintain the same warlike posture in the face of the nuclear threat from the Tehran regime.
During a public event to present the White House Ballroom project, the head of the US Executive was asked about the assessments made by the vice president J.D. Vancewho described the conflict in the Middle East as the main trigger for the electoral debacle at the polls.
The president agreed with the diagnosis of the financial consequences of the military clash on the finances of American households.
“What he said is, to a large extent, true, because the conflict caused a slight increase in the price of gasoline,” Trump admitted regarding the analyzes formulated by the Vice Presidency on the political costs derived from the international scenario.
The joint incursion with Israeli forces that began on February 28 has generated restrictions on commercial navigation through the Strait of Hormuz for eight months, raising energy prices and fueling social discontent expressed in the elections.
Despite the legislative cost that governing in the face of large opposition majorities in the House of Representatives and the Senate During the remaining two years of his mandate, the head of state justified the intervention as an indispensable measure for national security.
“But, at the same time, if I had to do it again, I would do it again, because, in the long term, it is the only solution. Iran cannot be allowed to have a nuclear weapon,” he said. trump by defending the validity of military deployment.
Internal tensions in the administration and control of Congress
The president’s statements followed those of JD Vance on the social network X, where he questioned the war strategy promoted by the White House after confirming the transfer of parliamentary control to Democratic representation.
“The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said it last night,” the vice president wrote in a lengthy message addressed to Republican militancy.
The change in the correlation of forces in both chambers of the US Congress is emerging as a factor that will condition the approval of the federal budget and the supervision of the foreign policy of the Republican administration in the final stretch of the presidential term.
