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‘We ended woke’: Hegseth rejects calls to quit after midterm wipeout

November 06, 2026 • 01:00 AM

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The defence secretary is trying to avoid blame for the Iran war, while Marco Rubio denies he is quitting Trump administration, as midterm fallout intensifies.

‘We ended woke’: Hegseth rejects calls to quit after midterm wipeout

London | Donald Trump’s senior cabinet members are scrambling to save their political futures, with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth launching a defiant video of his record and Secretary of State Marco Rubio denying reports he is considering quitting to plot his own presidential bid.

The manoeuvring by Rubio and Hegseth comes a day after Vice President J.D. Vance publicly broke with the US president and explicitly blamed the war with Iran and US inflation for this week’s shellacking for the Republicans at the midterm elections.

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