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Seth Meyers revisits Vance's Iran defense after his election-blame statement

A Closer Look pairs the vice president's explanation for Republican losses with his earlier comments, drawing an estimated 2.3 million first-day views.

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Republicans Say Trump Era Is Over & MAGA Is Dead After Blowout, Vance Blames Iran War: A Closer Look

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1:01Trump discusses possible impeachment, then directs attention to construction beams.
5:32Conservative news coverage describes the scale of Republican midterm losses.
7:18Coverage presents Vance's statement attributing the election losses to the war in Iran.
8:30Meyers contrasts that statement with earlier clips of Vance defending the military engagement.
13:09Jeffries and Schumer's victory speeches become targets of Meyers's closing jokes.

Donald Trump is discussing possible impeachment when construction supplies a diversion: "Watch the beam go up."

That clip gives Seth Meyers one of the contrasts in his post-midterm A Closer Look: Republicans are debating what went wrong, while Trump keeps returning to the building work. But the segment's central comparison concerns JD Vance and the war in Iran.

Meyers plays coverage of Vance's statement attributing Republican losses to the war, then returns to earlier footage of the vice president defending the military engagement. In one of those clips, Vance says, "I wouldn't call it a war." The juxtaposition makes Meyers's argument concrete: the explanation offered after the election sits awkwardly beside the language used before it.

The segment drew an estimated 2.3 million views in its first day, roughly twenty-two times the usual opening for a regular Late Night with Seth Meyers upload. It wasn't the show's only fast-starting election piece: the separate monologue titled "Wall Street Journal Publishes \"How Trump Lost the Midterms\" Article" also ran well above its usual pace, alongside two A Closer Look Shorts.

Meyers doesn't reserve the mockery for Republicans. Near the end, he turns to Hakeem Jeffries and Chuck Schumer's victory speeches, making the Democratic leaders' delivery part of the joke rather than closing with their celebration.

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