Speaking to reporters, Trump linked the conflict to higher gasoline or fuel prices and said the resulting increase had affected voters and Republican electoral performance. Reports said Republicans lost control of Congress, although the supplied evidence does not include detailed House or Senate results or vote margins.
Trump nevertheless rejected the idea that the political cost should change his view of the campaign. He said the military action was necessary to stop Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and that, if faced with the same decision again, he would do nothing differently.
He also argued that his own popularity had not transferred to Republican candidates. Trump said that if he had been on the ballot, Republicans would have won, but that the enthusiasm at his rallies had not carried over to other members of the party.
The available reporting establishes Trump’s explanation for the result, rather than independently proving that the war caused the Republican losses. It also leaves open the scale of the fuel-price effect and the precise electoral margins, while the nuclear rationale remains Trump’s stated justification rather than an independently verified finding in the supplied evidence.