Andrew Surabian

Republican Strategist

[Andrew Surabian @Surabees]

This is @JDVance.

#HillbillyEnergy

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

The level of cope over the midterms by neocons is truly astonishing

[Wade Miller @WadeMiller]

…. Is absolutely divorced from rationality, logic, and reality.

[Joe Concha @JoeConchaTV]

I get some flack for this, but this was the best of the franchise.

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

This

[Matt Whitlock @MattWhitlock]

Incredible letter.

The White House Counsel Will Scharf calls out Democrats for their crazy threats – and specifically the incoming Oversight Committee chairman for attributing his lawfare crusade to “pettiness because he is gay.”

Garcia clearly did not think that through.

[TMZ @TMZ]

Senator Bernie Moreno shares his reaction to Max Miller losing his seat while speaking with TMZ DC’s @hicharliecotton.

[Team Trump (Text TRUMP to 88022) @TeamTrump]

Senator @berniemoreno has an important message for Sherrod Brown:

“And the last thing I would say is, I represent the great state of Ohio, and to my colleague who won re-election: make sure you rent, do not buy.” 🤣

[Alex Bruesewitz 🇺🇸 @alexbruesewitz]

Excellent choice. @berniemoreno is a businessman and a political outsider. He’s the exact kind of guy we need running the NRSC next cycle. 🇺🇸

[Steve Cortes @SteveCortes]

Vice President @JDVance is right: the Iran war lost Republicans the midterms.

By trying to throw Vance under the bus for his accurate analysis, the neocon warmongers have tipped their hand. Their loyalty to President Trump ends where their devotion to foreign wars and America-last policies begins.

The American people deserve better than out-of-touch pundits who betray their nation’s interests.

Read my latest for the @DailySignal:

https://t.co/wD64DxR084

[Jason Willick @jawillick]

Notable that while Democratic numbers on tariffs & Iran war are the same — 93% want Congress to stop both — the Republican electorate is significantly more opposed to the war than to the tariffs. (Not surprising because Trump ran on one and against the other.)

[Rachel Campos-Duffy @RCamposDuffy]

It has been so frustrating for me to hear pundits & political analysts on both sides of the aisle, declaring the sharp decline in Hispanic support for GOP is due to immigration. It’s actually insulting. We are not obsessed with immigration, especially 2nd & 3rd generation.
It’s simple! Hispanics are largely working class people with larger than average families. It’s the economy, stupid!!!
Globalists, open border types & greedy self-serving Chamber of Commerce types who benefit from illegal cheap labor are deliberately lying to muddy the waters & reverse policies that keep blue collar wages high.
As for the excesses, yes, fix them! But also, a booming economy (no war), makes people very forgiving about other problems.

[JD Vance @JDVance]

Has Pete Hegseth committed impeachable crimes? The question is absurd and the answer is: obviously not.

Like so much of Congress, impeachment has become a ridiculous show that stands in for actual policymaking. Congress has so many tools for registering its policy disagreements. Rather than use them, they're going to try to impeach Pete Hegseth. They did the same to Donald Trump. Legislation is hard. Impeachments are easy (and ultimately, inconsequential).

The irony is that legislators are most angry at Pete on the issues where he's most correct: repositioning forces away from Europe/Ukraine and reorganizing the general officer corps.

This isn't about Iran, this is about the fact that Pete took on the bureaucracy at the Pentagon.

[Ryan James Girdusky @RyanGirdusky]

He actually did… a number of times

[Auron MacIntyre @AuronMacintyre]

What an incredible reminder that Republicans have been a controlled opposition dumpster fire for 50+ years

[Sean Davis @seanmdav]

It was the sudden blood loss, not the bullet.

[The Eastern Establishment was right @redfang58]

In kind contribution to the Vance campaign really.

[Henry J. Gomez @HenryJGomez]

People in Vance's orbit talk a lot about having the right enemies. This is an instance where, in their minds, Karl Rove has walked right out of central casting.

[Jack Posobiec @JackPosobiec]

Rove has never attacked any of the other 2028 contenders like this

[dan turrentine @danturrentine]

ok, as a college football fan, this is so, so well played @JDVance

[Buck Sexton @BuckSexton]

"JD's negotiations are what stopped us from victory in Iran"-

this is a common talking point right now. It doesn't stand up to analysis.

What would more missile strikes have accomplished? Best case scenario would be regime collapse, right? But there's almost zero chance that would occur without ground support (boots on the ground). You cannot control a country of 90 million people from the sky.

If Trump had ordered strikes on civilian infrastructure- electricity and water- it would've plunged the country into a humanitarian catastrophe. But uprisings are more difficult when the populace has no food or water. America would also have looked like a war crime-committing bully.

So then double-down with airstrikes on military targets? Iran has a 600,000 man military. Even if you were able to destroy 100% of their heavy equipment, planes tanks etc (impossible, we would run out of bombs long before that) there's enough security personnel with AKs to prevent an uprising.

So maybe we could've kept hitting them until a coup happens? Even if that was the plan, why do we think whomever takes over would be better for us? Saddam Hussein. Pinochet, Amin, Gaddafi, Assad- all coup guys.

So how were we going to achieve complete and total victory in Iran? How did JD's push for negotiations mess that up?

Bottom line: the Iranian regime was more resilient than Neocons expected. We couldn't get them to accept defeat with just air power. That was an error of judgment. Once it became clear we couldn't break them from the sky, negotiations became the best option, unless we wanted strikes every few months until we give up and move on. And we ended up doing that anyway.