# How Trump’s unconvincing Iran narrative cost him the US midterms

https://mins.news/en/item/133242

- Al Jazeera, 2026-11-06 23:07 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.aljazeera.com/video/the-listening-post/2026/11/6/how-trumps-unconvincing-narrative-on-iran-lost-him-the-us-midterms?traffic_source=rss

> Trump and Republicans struggle to explain a historic midterm defeat. Nearly $12bn was spent on the election, most of it benefiting Republican candidates, yet Democrats swept to a victory unseen in half a century. The report frames the result as a repudiation of Trump’s politics and the US-Israel war on Iran, and examines the political and media fallout.

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