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DeSantis criticises Iran war as LBC examines Republican succession

Simon Marks contrasts the Florida governor's distance from Trump's cabinet with the harder choices facing JD Vance and Marco Rubio.

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Republicans turn on each other after midterms defeat

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0:48DeSantis criticises foreign interventions and links the Iran war to higher petrol prices.
1:22Marks argues that being outside Trump's cabinet gives DeSantis more room to position himself for a presidential bid.
3:10Vance must balance his earlier counsel on Iran with his responsibilities as Trump's vice president, Marks argues.
4:56Trump defends his decision on Iran by saying the country cannot be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon.
6:32Marks discusses reporting that donors could favour candidates outside the administration over Vance.
9:29Rubio's possible presidential ambitions lead into Marks's analysis of Middle East policy and its domestic political consequences.

Ron DeSantis puts the price at the pump at the centre of his criticism. In a CNN interview excerpt carried by LBC, Florida's governor challenges foreign interventions and points to rising petrol costs as Republicans absorb their midterm defeat.

Simon Marks uses that intervention to examine a question extending beyond the election result: who can plausibly lead Republicans after Donald Trump, and how closely will they remain tied to his decisions?

The segment has drawn roughly 362,000 views in its first hours. Its focus is less on the electoral map than on the different positions of DeSantis, Vice President JD Vance and Secretary of State Marco Rubio ahead of the next presidential contest.

Marks argues that DeSantis has room to criticise because he sits outside Trump's cabinet. Vance has a more difficult balance to strike: Marks examines his earlier counsel on military action against Iran alongside his responsibilities as vice president, and discusses reporting that donors could favour an outsider instead.

Trump, meanwhile, remains firm. Asked whether he would make the same decision again, he says: "If you had it to do again, would you do it again? The answer is yes." He presents preventing Iran from acquiring a nuclear weapon as the justification.

Rubio's contribution offers another response to the political damage. Defending the administration's actions, he says: "Sometimes when you do the right thing, I don't know if it's popular or not, but it's the right thing to do."

For Marks, the unresolved course of Middle East policy is central to these presidential calculations. The segment explores possible candidacies, not announced campaigns.

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