# GOP faces reckoning after blue wave as questions grow over Hegseth’s future

https://mins.news/en/video/133077

- ABC News, 2026-11-06 20:36 UTC
- Politics
- Original: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWhDvNXehdo

> Republican Rep. Don Bacon discusses the party’s next steps after Democrats’ sweeping midterm victories. Republicans now face questions about the Iran war and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s future.

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