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🚨🇺🇸 🇮🇷 Vance tried to stop the Iran war before it began by using data: in January he had a pollster test how many dead Americans the public would accept... the answer was under 100 The Journal has the texts. As Trump weighed the operation, the vice president, the one voice in the room against it, reached out to Rasmussen’s polling chief and got Iran questions added to a survey, with his office shaping them, to show the president what the public would tolerate. The answers: a 44-43 split on going to war at all, 65 percent saying Trump should ask Congress first, and 62 percent saying an acceptable death toll was fewer than 100 troops. Vance carried the numbers straight to the Oval Office. Trump went to war anyway, and this week he said he’d do it again: “I did the right thing. I would have done it again.” Vance may end up as one more casualty of this war, his 2028 ambitions at least, because the record says he did everything a vice president can do short of resigning and the voters punished him anyway: he lost his own Ohio seat on Tuesday, donors are telling fundraisers “we can’t back Vance,” and Trump’s endorsement this week was “maybe he won’t run.” The only thing that saves him is the paper trail, the January poll, the letter to Rezaei, the daily calls to Doha, proof he fought the war from inside the room when fighting it from outside would have ended his career. He has months, not years, to turn that into a story voters believe, as DeSantis is already hiring consultants while Ossoff climbs the markets. Source: WSJ / Writer: Daniel