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Liz Wheeler says Trump has a bigger problem than the Iran war after midterm losses

The Blaze
3 days 18 hours ago


Republicans took a beating in the midterms, and President Trump can’t afford to ignore the reasons why — which BlazeTV host Liz Wheeler explains have created a lack of faith in the president.

“Number one,” Wheeler says, “the Iran war obviously impacted President Trump’s base. That’s pretty hard to argue. It’s very obvious that that is the case.”

Wheeler believes the Iran war is partially to blame for two reasons.

Those reasons, she says, are that “people in Trump’s base care about the Iran war due to opposition to forever wars. And also because of how the conflict, the military conflict in Iran, raised gas prices.”

“Those are the two fundamental reasons why the Iran war impacted President Trump’s base,” she adds.

However, while Wheeler also “vehemently oppose[s] forever wars” and “detest[s] high gas prices,” she believes the comparison between the Iran war and “forever wars in Iraq and Afghanistan” is an “unfair” one.

“And also based on what Trump’s stated goal is, that I think most agree with at least theoretically, that Iran should not have a nuclear weapon because that poses a direct threat to America — not just our allies, but to us, to America,” she says.

“And also, of course, based on Trump’s history of opposing forever wars. President Trump is the one who introduced, he taught conservatives and Republicans to be against forever wars,” she continues.

Wheeler says another issue people took with the Iran war is that Trump promised Americans that it would “be over in days or weeks,” and that hasn’t been the case.

“You just don’t make a promise like that in politics if you are not confident that you can fulfill that promise because it causes people to lose trust,” Wheeler says.

“It is also worth noting that President Trump’s base would have given Trump more leeway on the war in Iran and even on the domestic implications, the gas prices, if they felt trust in Trump,” she continues, noting that making good on the promise of “justice” would have sealed that trust.

“For example, if Trump, the day that he took office, would have pounded justice ... remember Fauci, Brennan, all of them,” she says.

“But Pam Bondi didn’t do that,” she continues. “Basically zero of the Democrats who weaponized the government under Biden, weaponized government against you, have been held accountable. And people feel that viscerally. They feel disillusioned because that’s why they cast their vote for President Trump.”

“They voted for justice,” she adds.

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TWENTY MILLION

Geller Reports
3 days 18 hours ago

Republican votes stayed the same.

Democrats materialized 20 million new votes.

Pamela Geller

DeSantis unloads on Vivek Ramaswamy: 'Tech guy who wants to bring in foreign workers'

The Blaze
3 days 18 hours ago


Vivek Ramaswamy found the Ohio gubernatorial election on Tuesday even harder to carry than a 10-year-old.

The biotech entrepreneur lost by nearly eight percentage points to Democrat Amy Acton, the pandemic authoritarian who closed Ohio schools and businesses and forbade virtually all public and private gatherings in early 2020.

'Heavy D has been waiting two years to drop this hammer on Vivek.'

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) laid into Ramaswamy during an after-action review on Thursday, telling the eponymous host of "The Sage Steele Show" why Ohioans rejected him.

"How bad did they beat Vivek like a drum?" said the governor. "Now part of that was Vivek, quite frankly. I don't know why they would have pushed him to be the candidate there."

After noting that his mother, Karen DeSantis, hails from Youngstown, Ohio, DeSantis noted that the Buckeye State "is a working-class state, very blue-collar."

"You know, Vivek — he's, like, a tech guy. He did this Alzheimer's drug, and he wants to bring in people, foreign workers, on visas," continued DeSantis. "That is not the type of person that's going to sell — and I know he shot himself in the foot. I know he did a lot of other stuff to make it a real landslide against him, but even with that, it's like, you gotta meet the voters where they are in some of this stuff."

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Ramaswamy, the son of Indian immigrants, certainly did himself no favors by:

  • attributing tech companies' decision to "hire foreign-born & first-generation engineers over 'native' Americans" to the supposed veneration of "mediocrity over excellence" in American culture;
  • asserting that "'normalcy' doesn't cut it in a hyper-competitive global market for technical talent";
  • running a business that liberally used the very H-1B program that he subsequently vowed to "gut";
  • calling for the H-1B program to be replaced with another domestic-labor-displacing program "that focuses on selecting the very best of the best";
  • emphasizing that immigrants "can be the lifeblood of the American dream";
  • stating that as a Hindu, he believes Jesus Christ "is a son of God," not the Son of God.

DeSantis suggested that the Republicans might have kept the governor's mansion in Ohio had they run "a candidate that was more representative or more in tune with the interests of kind of these blue-collar people that make the backbone of Ohio."

The Ramaswamy campaign did not immediately respond to Blaze News' request for comment.

"Dayum. Ron has determined to settle some family business," tweeted BlazeTV host Steve Deace.

BlazeTV host Jesse Kelly said of DeSantis' analysis, "You just know Heavy D has been waiting two years to drop this hammer on Vivek. Has to feel good."

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Joseph MacKinnon