Vance ‘privately’ blasts Netanyahu as Iran war divides Trump administration and 2028 ambitions loom

Vice President JD Vance has reportedly told associates that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "wrong on everything" about the Iran war, a rift that exposes divisions inside the Trump administration and feeds talk of Vance's possible 2028 presidential run. Axios published the account on Nov. 4, one day after Republicans lost both the House and the Senate in the midterm elections, according to Fox News.

Vance has since placed the blame for those losses on the conflict itself, posting on X that it was the reason the party lost. He has urged President Donald Trump to seek a negotiated settlement instead of authorizing new strikes. Reports say he leads a group of senior officials who pushed Trump toward talks, warning that an unpopular war could cost the party Congress. Netanyahu, for his part, had pressed Trump to resume attacks on Iran before the vote, but Trump held back after endorsing the Israeli leader's bid for re-election. Vance declined to back that campaign.

Natan Sachs of the Middle East Institute told Fox News Digital the friction helps Vance, letting him separate himself from an administration that just took an electoral beating without attacking Trump directly.

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