Donald Trump's MAGA movement appeared to be splintering as key Republicans desperately searched for answers after the GOP midterm disaster and even turned the blame on each other.
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Republicans → appear → other
Republicans saw the Democrats take commanding majorities of both the House and Senate, as well as a majority of governorships across the country after Tuesday's historic election.
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Democrats → see → election
The blame game started at the White House where Trump cited the poor quality of candidates, claiming the results would have been different if he was on the ballot.
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he → start → ballot
IF I WERE, WE WOULD HAVE WON IN A LANDSLIDE!'
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WE → win → LANDSLIDE
Trump wrote on Truth Social.
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Trump → write → Social
In a surprising move, Vice President JD Vance condemned the war in Iran as he tries to distance himself from Trump's unpopular policies while plotting his future.
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he → condemn → future
The reason we lost is the war,' Vance said.
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Vance → lose → ?
'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.'
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losing → like → years
He added: 'Argue it was a worthwhile cost to pay.
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it → add → ?
Agree or disagree, that's at least honest.'
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that → agree → ?
Donald Trump Jr reacted positively to Vance's bold statement, writing 'every word of this is...' before adding three 100 Points emojis.
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word → react → emojis
However, solidarity around Vance soured quickly as pundits and politicians across the Republican spectrum quickly turned on him, and one another.
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pundits → sour → him
Donald Trump's MAGA movement appeared to be splintering as key Republicans desperately searched for answers after the GOP midterm disaster and even turned the blame on each other
Vice President JD Vance forcefully condemned the war in Iran as he tries to distance himself from unpopular policies while plotting his future
National Review writer Noah Rothman blasted Vance for 'undermining' the administration by obsessing over his political future.
'Frankly, I don't know why this White House tolerates the frequency and extent to which JD Vance feathers his own political nest at the expense of this administration's own position,' Rothman said.
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Rothman → appear → position
'He's undermining it from within.
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He → undermine → within
They have to know what he's up to.
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he → have → what
He won't discipline himself.'
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He → discipline → himself
Fox News commentator Mark Levin endorsed Rothman's post, calling Vance's insubordination 'open and notorious now.'
Levin then aimed straight at the vice president over the failed ceasefire that Vance negotiated with Iran.
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Vance → endorse → Iran
'The same buffoons who screwed up our Iran operations with the phony and feckless peace negotiations are now blaming the midterms debacle on the Iran war,' Levin said.
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Levin → screw → war
Former Vice President Mike Pence chimed in with an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal that blamed the GOP Congress for abandoning the party's principles.
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that → chime → principles
Former Vice President Mike Pence chimed in with an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that blamed what he called 'big government Republicans' who abandoned the party's principles
Donald Trump Jr reacted positively to Vance's bold statement, writing 'every word of this is...' before adding three Hundred Points emojis
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word → chime → emojis
Over the past two years, we've seen conservatives shrug as a Republican Congress continued to rack up record debt and spending while the administration seized stakes in private companies, imposed unconstitutional tariffs on friend and foe alike and abandoned the right to life, all while copying the other side by offering government handouts and expanding entitlements,' he said.
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he → see → entitlements
Pence did not name anyone in particular but went on to call the war 'an albatross around the necks of Republicans.
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Pence → name → Republicans
At Turning Point USA, commentators slammed media personalities from the MAGA universe who were less than faithful during this rough moment.
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who → slam → moment
'We saw the Megyn Kellys, the Tuckers, the Marjorie Taylor Greenes break away,' TPUSA spokesperson Andrew Kolvet said on The Charlie Kirk Show.
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Kolvet → see → Show
The MAGA-adjacent pundits had plenty of criticism to wield against the president.
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pundits → have → president
Former GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a onetime Trump ally, called the election 'a total referendum on Trump.'
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Greene → call → Trump
Trump covered up the Epstein files protecting rapists and pedophiles, started a foreign war no one wanted and killed a school full of kids, put his rich elite donors before the struggling Americans who put him in office, made life unaffordable with his tariffs, and caused gas and diesel prices to skyrocket while he played the market and sold crypto,' she wrote on X.
'And Republicans stood behind him silently clapping like trained baby seals,' she added.
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she → cover → seals
Former GOP Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene, a onetime Trump ally, called the election 'a total referendum on Trump'
Tucker Carlson, a sometime MAGA ally, went after Trump for his demeanor during wild campaign rallies where he complimented multiple men's backsides.
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he → call → backsides
I think a lot of men who voted for Trump two years ago imagine this was a masculine, vigorous leader,' Carlson said.
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Carlson → think → Trump
he's dancing to YMCA?
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he → dance → YMCA
Wait a second, he kinda seems a little more like a b****y old woman than an alpha male.
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he → wait → male
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Carlson called Trump's behavior 'not appealing to men because it's not masculine.'
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it → call → men
Megyn Kelly on her show said the Republican Party was 'in ruins, and maybe it needed to be' following the results.
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it → say → results
She blamed candidates and a party as a whole for relying too much on the President.
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She → blame → President
'They're going to have to learn how to win without daddy on the ballot, and to find their ethical center, and not just be puppets of Trump's, not to have their entire political world revolve around Donald Trump,' she said.
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she → go → Trump
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis - who ran for President against Trump in 2024 - blamed the poor results on the war, high prices and bad candidates including a screed against Ohio gubernatorial loser Vivek Ramaswamy.
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who → run → Ramaswamy
Tucker Carlson, a sometime MAGA ally, went after Trump for his demeanor during wild campaign rallies where he complimented multiple men's backsides
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he → go → backsides
Vivek, he's like a tech guy, did this Alzheimer's drug, and he wants to bring in foreign workers on visas.
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he → do → visas
That is not the type of person that's gonna sell.
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that → go → person
And I know he shot himself in the foot,' he said.
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he → know → foot
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