Trump concedes Iran war, gas prices played role in election rout, vows to work with Democrats

President Donald Trump acknowledged early Wednesday that the Iran war and its impact on gas prices played a role in the midterm election drubbing Republicans suffered but he vowed to try to work with the Democrats now poised to take control of Congress.

“I think we’ll work with the Democrats, and we’ll get along very well with them," the president told The Wall Street Journal. "If we don’t, we’ll be very tough on them, they’ll be very tough on us."

Republicans suffered historic losses in Tuesday's election, thristing the last two years of Trump’s second presidency into hostile territory, a painful reality for a president who held 29 rallies, 40-plus telephone rallies, spent $450 million of his own PAC money in a relentless bid to keep Republicans in control in the final month of the election. 

He acknowledged the Iran war was "a piece of" the election dynamic but that he had no regrets about his decision to bomb Tehran and eliminate its nuclear capablitiies.

“I don’t think about it. I did the right thing. I would have done it again,” he said.