An Associated Press article reports that President Donald Trump told Vice President JD Vance on 12 November 2026 to shift his focus from the eight-month-old Iran war to his anti-fraud campaign against what Trump calls corruption and crime in Democratic-controlled cities and states, after Republicans' sweeping midterm losses. The article adds that Vance led an unsuccessful summer push for a truce, is weighing a 2028 White House run, and that oil shipments through the Strait of Hormuz have recovered even as tankers there keep coming under attack.