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Published on: 06/11/2026 - 18:53

In an interview with France 24, John Bolton, former national security adviser to Donald Trump during his first term, reacts to the mid-term elections, which saw a large victory for the Democratic Party. He believes that "this is the beginning of the end" of the role of the American president within the Republican Party.

Speaking from Washington for France 24, John Bolton believes that the results of the mid-term elections mark "the end" of the Trump era within the Republican Party.

He explains in particular that "in his last public address before Tuesday's vote, the president did not talk about subjects such as the cost of living and purchasing power, but about his construction and renovation projects."

The Democrats regained control of the House of Representatives and the Senate, thus signing the worst performance of the Republicans since the 1974 elections, in the wake of the Watergate scandal.

Donald Trump claimed that Republicans lost because his name was not on the ballot. John Bolton disagrees. According to him, "during the campaign, Trump did everything to ensure that voters also voted for him. He repeatedly told them: 'Pretend my name was on the ballot'."

Asked about J.D. Vance's tweet – which attributed the Republicans' defeat in the mid-term elections to the war in Iran – John Bolton believes that the American vice-president is trying to send the following message: "I am even more MAGA than the president".

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