{"id":80950,"date":"2026-11-05T11:54:49","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:54:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/republicans-hoping-to-succeed-trump-in-2028-dissect-midterm-rout\/"},"modified":"2026-11-05T11:54:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T16:54:49","slug":"republicans-hoping-to-succeed-trump-in-2028-dissect-midterm-rout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/republicans-hoping-to-succeed-trump-in-2028-dissect-midterm-rout\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans hoping to succeed Trump in 2028 dissect midterm rout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance, Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz all pointed to Iran war and affordability as key factors in Democratic victory<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/live\/2026\/nov\/05\/midterm-elections-live-latest-updates-mississippi-senate-race\">US midterms 2026 live \u2013 latest updates<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/republicans\">Republican<\/a> hopefuls in the race to succeed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\">Donald Trump<\/a> swiftly blamed two key pillars of his agenda \u2013 the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/us-israel-war-on-iran\">Iran war<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-tariffs\">tariffs<\/a> \u2013 for summoning the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/ng-interactive\/2026\/nov\/04\/midterm-elections-full-results-senate-house-governor-races\">Democratic blue wave<\/a> that swept the US midterm elections.<\/p>\n<p>JD Vance, the outgoing Florida governor Ron DeSantis and the senator Ted Cruz all pointed to frustration over cost of living amid the fallout from Republican defeats across the country, including in previous strongholds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/nov\/05\/republicans-cruz-desantis-vance-midterm-rout\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JD Vance, Ron DeSantis and Ted Cruz all pointed to Iran war and affordability as key factors in Democratic victory US midterms 2026 live \u2013 latest updates Republican hopefuls in the race to succeed Donald Trump swiftly blamed two key pillars of his agenda \u2013 the Iran war and tariffs \u2013 for summoning the Democratic &#8230; <a title=\"Republicans hoping to succeed Trump in 2028 dissect midterm rout\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/05\/republicans-hoping-to-succeed-trump-in-2028-dissect-midterm-rout\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Republicans hoping to succeed Trump in 2028 dissect midterm rout\">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-80950","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\/80950","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=80950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}