00:00And big statement coming in by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance after Trump's midterm debacle.
00:06J.D. Vance has blamed the war, the war on Iran, for the Republican losses across the United States.
00:12He has said that Trump and Vance's 2024 voters now turned into Democrats this time around.
00:19J.D. Vance has said in a post that the main problem was not the turnout,
00:23but that Republican voters switched into Democrat voters during the midterms.
00:27He also said that war, inflation and the policy with Israel drove Republican voters away from their party and towards
00:35the Democrats.
00:36This is a big statement coming in from the U.S. Vice President right after the midterm debacle.
00:41The reason we lost the midterms is the war. That is what J.D. Vance is claiming for the Republican
00:47setback reason.
00:48J.D. Vance has also warned against gaslighting, saying that Republicans must address what is the real issue behind the
00:54voters' anger, which is the war.
00:56And J.D. Vance has said that they shouldn't shift focus to the turnout and should in fact focus on
01:02what was the actual reason behind the Republicans' losses.
01:06For more on this, we have Rohit Sharma joining us from Washington, D.C.
01:08Rohit, thank you for joining us.
01:10For more details on this, this is a big statement coming in from the U.S. Vice President,
01:14who has in fact time and again reportedly been against U.S.' military intervention in Iran.
01:20And now, just after the midterm debacle, J.D. Vance has in fact said that war was the reason behind
01:26Republican losses.
01:28Well, he is clearly distancing himself, you know, from whatever action for the action the United States will take,
01:34which obviously has to come from the commander in chief that happens to be President Donald Trump,
01:38who is bearing the brunt of this midterm loss.
01:42So I think J.D. Vance is looking out for himself in the terms that he does want to run
01:47for presidency in 2028.
01:49We also know for a fact that when President Trump wanted to attack Iran,
01:53he was one of the guys in the room, in that meeting room,
01:56who said that he opposes any military action against Iran.
02:01He also has unsuccessfully tried to bring the two sides together to get a peace agreement going.
02:08So, look, I think, you know, everybody in Washington, D.C. is waking up to this new reality.
02:14Everybody is introspecting, especially if you're a Republican.
02:17And some of them are also soft launching their presidential bids for 2028.
02:22And this is exactly what J.D. Vance is doing.
02:24He's actually boxed the president right now by saying the war has cost us this election.
02:28Because if the president of the United States were to take an action tomorrow or day after or a week
02:34after on Iran,
02:35which a lot of people believe that he will be doing something like that,
02:39he's saying, look, I was never a part of this plan.
02:41So it is interesting that the J.D. Vance would do that more so on a tweet versus, you know,
02:49traditionally what we've seen is the president, the vice president come out of the White House
02:53and they interact with the press and they, you know, we are able to ask them questions.
02:58They're able to deliver a statement.
03:00But this is very, you know, very interesting that the vice president,
03:05the sitting vice president of the United States would blame everything on the war.
03:09And then the other big thing here is he's also putting the blame on the United States
03:14and his relationship with Israel, something, a position that actually Democrats have had
03:19for at least last three, three and a half, four years.
03:21He's also making sure that he's appealing to those voters that feel the same
03:27and have voted for Democrats in this midterm.
03:30So the other two parts, you know, inflation, economy, obviously we all know that.
03:34But to say and blame everything on war, I think J.D. Vance is definitely looking ahead
03:40beyond the Trump presidency.
03:42Like you said, he is in a way soft launching his presidential bid.
03:45And he, in fact, also concluded the post saying that those who are pissed with the results
03:51should, in fact, look to Republicans who share that same worldview.
03:56That is what J.D. Vance concluded the post with.
03:58So does that in a way come as an indication before the presidential race
04:02against the likes of, say, Marco Rubio's worldview?
04:07Well, you know, you have to obviously compare, you know, what he's said and done
04:11with somebody like Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
04:13And you look at two guys, you know, President, sorry, Vice President J.D. Vance
04:17has done things that most in the MAGA camp would call appealing to the gripers,
04:24the extreme MAGA voices.
04:26And then you have the center voice of Secretary Marco Rubio.
04:28You know, we've seen this online hate against Indians that could have very well
04:32translated into a real-life tragedy two weeks ago if that attack would have happened
04:36at the Hindu temple.
04:38And when Secretary Rubio had talked about it, he said, you know,
04:41there are dumb people in America.
04:42And he said he doesn't feel that's true.
04:45J.D. Vance, on the other side, have actually courted some of these people
04:48who have made those statements.
04:49So you're looking at two different ways the Republican Party can go now.
04:54Also something that J.D. Vance has put out in his post to say that everybody's
04:58going to have an opinion.
04:58Establishment is going to ask us to move towards being more moderate.
05:02And he's asking, you know, people to take some time off before they pass judgment.
05:06So he has to figure out his lane.
05:08I think, you know, he's tried to be anti-Trump before 2016.
05:13He's also tried to be pro-Trump when he was running as a senator,
05:17then obviously became the VP.
05:18And now he's also trying to move away from that position.
05:22So I think the voters will have a chance to see what he stands for.
05:25As far as Secretary Marco Rubio is concerned, I think he definitely has that moderate center lane
05:29to be able to launch his presidential campaign, if he wants to, that is.
05:34And then he would be appealing to those moderate voters within the GOP,
05:37who are actually having a lot to say today after the defeat in the midterm,
05:42to say that the party had been going, drifting a lot towards the right extreme voices
05:49that have been given megaphone by the MAGA.
05:53And I think we will probably see some of these things unfold in the next few months.
05:57Technically, and just for our audiences, you know, you'll probably see
06:01PACs forming by January or February of next year.
06:03So I think we will see both these leaders revealing what platform they want to run on
06:08by January or February of next year.
06:10But right now, I think J.D. Vance, as I said, getting ahead of the game,
06:14trying to distance himself from the failures of this administration.
06:17Absolutely. Thank you, Rohit, for those details.
06:19So this is where we stand at this point.
06:21J.D. Vance has, in fact, taken himself ahead of the race.
06:25And where this goes on from here on, ahead of the presidential bid, we'll have to see.
06:29And we'll also have to see how this shapes U.S.'s policies on Israel
06:33as well as on the war in Iran.
06:34So this is where we stand at this point.
