Trump Cites 'Incredible Dislike for Israel,' the War and Gas Prices as Main Reasons for Republican Midterm Losses
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump, summing up Republicans' midterm losses in his '60 Minutes' interview broadcast Sunday evening, November 8, on CBS, said Americans' 'incredible' dislike of Israel was one of the main reasons, alongside the war with Iran itself and higher gasoline prices. The interview, recorded at the White House on Friday, November 6, was Trump's first television sit-down since Republicans' historic defeats on November 3.
Asked why voters had turned on Republicans, Trump said: 'They didn't like the war. They didn't like the fact that gasoline went up.' He continued: 'There's a great dislike, incredibly, for Israel. There seems to be a dislike for Israel. So you have that, you have the war itself, you have the gas prices, and I think those are the primary reasons.'
Trump also reiterated that U.S. strikes on Iran's nuclear facilities had been essential to Israel's survival. Vice President JD Vance wrote after the election that 'the reason we lost is the war,' and relayed a pollster's finding that voters who backed Trump in 2024 and switched to Democrats this year named four conditions for returning, one of them being to change 'our relationship to Israel.'
GSM previously reported other parts of the same interview: Trump conceded his mass deportation policy 'might be too tough,' said he was open to an immigration deal with Democrats, and was pressed on the growth of his personal fortune. Together with the loss assessment reported here, the interview amounts to Trump's first systematic response to the midterm results.
(Source: CBS)
Source: CBS
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