TURNING ON TRUMP?

Loser Vance Throws Trump Under the Bus in Wild Post

The vice president isn’t blaming the GOP’s candidates for their loss—he’s blaming their endorser.

Donald Trump has spent months vacillating over whether to endorse his vice president as his successor and the next leader of the Republican Party. Now, JD Vance doesn’t appear eager for any help from his boss.

In a stunning rebuke of Trump, the vice president blamed Republicans’ crushing losses on Tuesday night on the war in Iran and other Trump policies, telling the president’s former and current supporters: “To the people who are just as p---ed at the results, you should be.”

“The real reason we lost is obvious to almost everyone,” Vance, 42, wrote of the war, which Trump launched in February in coordination with Israel.

In a lengthy X post, Vance said he heard from trusted pollsters that 2024 Trump supporters largely turned their backs on the administration over the president’s war on Iran, cost of living, a lack of “America First” policies and the U.S.’s relationship to Israel—policies on which the vice president holds starkly different views than Trump.

“Our voters showed up. And the above four reasons are why many of them voted for Democrats,” Vance wrote, then asserting: “The reason we lost is the war. The president himself said so last night.”

“If you’d like to argue it was worth it, that losing the Senate for the next 6 years was worth it, then do so,” he continued, saying, “Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay. Agree or disagree, that’s at least honest.”

The former Ohio senator’s break from the president comes as Democrats are on track to hold at least a 50-seat majority in the House and regain control of the Senate, dominating in most toss-up races—and in states that weren’t even considered toss-ups.

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Vance’s post, which was viewed more than four million times just an hour after he shared it, was celebrated by Donald Trump Jr., a stunning dissent from the president’s first son.

In a post on X, Trump Jr. echoed Vance’s stance, replying: “Every word of this is 💯💯💯.”

Both Vance and Trump Jr. have close relationships with Tucker Carlson, a rightwing fixture who publicly broke ranks with the president after he launched his war.

Vance, who served four years in the Marine Corps during the Iraq War, was staunchly opposed to the war before Trump launched it, reportedly arguing against the military operation during meetings with Trump. Still, he publicly supported the conflict until Tuesday.

Trump, meanwhile, blamed not himself but the candidates he endorsed on Tuesday’s upset, saying he “didn’t get along” with some of them during an early-morning interview on Fox News Wednesday. Meanwhile, his approval rating has plummeted to record lows, with some polls showing disapproval soaring to 60 percent. The White House did not immediately respond to questions from the Daily Beast about the vice president’s statement.

Both Trump and Vance traversed the country in a last-ditch effort to shore up support for their fallen candidates in recent weeks. For his part, Vance spent a large portion of that campaigning spewing hatred toward the Democrats. At a rally in Michigan, he claimed electing Michigan Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed would spark uprisings similar to those in France. He alluded to Texas Senator-Elect James Talarico being a closeted homosexual without evidence, and called New York Governor Kathy Hochul a “witch.”

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