A little more than a week after Republicans suffered devastating losses in the midterm elections, a Republican senator bluntly rebuked Vice President JD Vance’s attempts to blame the bombing on the war in Iran.
Speaking on CNN’s “The Arena” Thursday, Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.) admitted that Democrats “did a better job” of centering Americans’ economic woes in their campaign messaging, and that President Donald Trump’s attempts to blame existing inflation on former President Joe Biden largely failed with the American people.
“The economy belongs to President Trump. He may not be the father of this child, but he has to raise him,” Kennedy said.
Host Kasie Hunt then pressed her own presidential ambitions, as the election results dampened Vance’s chances of securing the Republican nomination.
Kennedy said he would run for reelection to the Senate in two years, but did not say whether he would seek the Republican Party nomination, before turning his attention to the vice president.
“I don’t think the vice president did himself any favors by sending that email or that tweet or anything after the election. That loss wasn’t because of Iran. That may have played a role, but I don’t think every Republican in the state of Texas lost their election – every single one of them – because they think American foreign policy is too interventionist. I mean, put down the crack pipe. It’s much deeper than that,” he said. Kennedy.
Kennedy was referring to Vance’s lengthy social media post the day after last week’s election.
“The reason we lost was the war. The President himself said so last night,” Vance wrote. “Any honest conversation about where we go from here must start there.”
Watch Kennedy’s full appearance on CNN’s “The Arena” here:
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