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Kennedy rejects Iran explanation for Republican midterm losses

Responding to JD Vance's post-election message on CNN, the Louisiana senator says the party's problems go deeper than foreign policy.

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'Put Down The Crack Pipe': John Kennedy Reacts To JD Vance's Post-Midterm Post

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John Kennedy had a blunt assessment of the vice president's post-midterm message: "I don't think the Vice President did himself any favors by sending out that email or tweet."

Speaking with Kasie Hunt on CNN's The Arena, the Republican senator pushed back against explaining his party's losses through foreign policy alone. "This loss was not because of Iran," he said, pointing to Republican losses in Texas as a reason to look beyond a simple account of voter behavior. He argued that the problems ran deeper, without laying out a fuller explanation in this brief exchange.

Forbes Breaking News posted the CNN segment as a Short, which reached roughly 292,000 views in 11 hours, a much faster start than the channel's usual short uploads. Its post-election coverage also includes separate press appearances by Chris Van Hollen and Elissa Slotkin about Democratic Senate leadership.

Hunt's questions also turned to Kennedy's own ambitions. He said he was planning to run for reelection to the Senate. But when she raised his appearance at New Hampshire's Politics & Eggs event, he acknowledged that he had not ruled out considering a presidential run: "I was asked would I ever consider it, and I said, 'Yeah. Sure, I would.'"

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