{"id":80925,"date":"2026-11-04T20:54:48","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T01:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/pete-hegseth-may-take-fall-for-republicans-midterm-losses-despite-trump-support\/"},"modified":"2026-11-04T20:54:48","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T01:54:48","slug":"pete-hegseth-may-take-fall-for-republicans-midterm-losses-despite-trump-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/pete-hegseth-may-take-fall-for-republicans-midterm-losses-despite-trump-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hegseth may take fall for Republicans\u2019 midterm losses, despite Trump support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance calls Iran war into question as Thomas Massie files eight articles of impeachment<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-election-results-question-answer\">Send us your questions about the US midterms results and Democrats\u2019 \u2018blue wave\u2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Pete Hegseth is increasingly looking like he may take the fall for Republicans\u2019 midterm losses, despite Donald Trump\u2019s vocal support for his defense secretary, even calling him a champion of war.<\/p>\n<p>The war in Iran, which voters and Trump have named as a key reason for Republicans\u2019 midterm losses, \u201chas been primarily a Department of War-led effort because you chose to take military action to resolve a foreign policy matter\u201d, a former senior Pentagon official told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/11\/04\/politics\/pete-hegseth-impeachment-trump\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/04\/pete-hegseth-republicans-midterm-losses\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance calls Iran war into question as Thomas Massie files eight articles of impeachment Send us your questions about the US midterms results and Democrats\u2019 \u2018blue wave\u2019 Pete Hegseth is increasingly looking like he may take the fall for Republicans\u2019 midterm losses, despite Donald Trump\u2019s vocal support for his defense secretary, even calling him &#8230; <a title=\"Pete Hegseth may take fall for Republicans\u2019 midterm losses, despite Trump support\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/04\/pete-hegseth-may-take-fall-for-republicans-midterm-losses-despite-trump-support\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Pete Hegseth may take fall for Republicans\u2019 midterm losses, despite Trump support\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80925\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}