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Iran war's electoral cost meets a White House leak dispute

A South Korean compilation places Democratic Senate breakthroughs beside a May report on Trump's response to disclosures about Iran attack plans.

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0:00MBC reports Hamilton's Kansas Senate victory ended a Republican hold lasting more than nine decades.
0:46Talarico celebrates defeating Paxton in Texas, followed by Democratic Senate results in South Carolina and Michigan.
2:00An archival May 12 report describes Trump's anger over disclosures about meetings with Netanyahu on Iran attack plans.
3:25The May segment reports then-acting Attorney General Todd Blanche pursuing subpoenas against journalists covering national security.
4:24Correspondent Heo Yu-shin links Republican losses to war-driven fuel costs, inflation and tariffs.
6:30Heo cites Trump's acknowledgment that the Iran war contributed to defeat, while Trump defends launching it.

The election results are from November; the confrontation over White House leaks comes from May. South Korea's Munhwa Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) brings them together in a compilation linking Republican losses to the Iran war, fuel prices and voter anger over household costs.

The opening report follows Democratic Senate victories in states long associated with Republican strength. MBC reports that former pastor Adam Hamilton defeated Roger Marshall in Kansas, ending a Republican hold stretching back more than nine decades. "This election is a rebuke of unkindness and cruelty in Washington," Hamilton says.

In Texas, former teacher James Talarico celebrates defeating Ken Paxton. The report also covers a Democratic Senate victory in South Carolina and Abdul El-Sayed's Michigan win, which it describes as making him the first Muslim elected to the U.S. Senate.

The compilation then turns to an older dispute. Clearly dated May 12, that segment reports on Donald Trump's anger over disclosures about secret White House meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu concerning plans to attack Iran. It describes efforts by Todd Blanche, then acting attorney general, to pursue subpoenas against journalists covering national security and wartime decisions. This is archival coverage, not a newly announced response to the election.

Returning to November, Washington correspondent Heo Yu-shin argues that high fuel prices following the Iran war, inflation and tariffs pushed swing voters away from Trump-backed candidates. A New York voter named Jonathan puts the pressure plainly: "rent is crazy, gas is crazy, grocery prices are crazy."

Heo also identifies aggressive immigration enforcement, troop deployments against protests and controversies involving Trump's family as factors mobilizing opposition. These are the correspondent's explanations for the result. He closes by citing a Wall Street Journal interview in which Trump acknowledged the war contributed to the defeat while maintaining that launching it was the right decision.