President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that the war with Iran played a role in the Democratic sweep in the midterm elections.

“Iran was a piece of it,” Trump said in a telephone interview with The Wall Street Journal, pointing to the rise in oil prices as a key issue. Trump added, “I did the right thing. I would have done it again.”

“The biggest issue,” Trump said, “is that I wasn’t on the ballot.”

In similar comments to Fox News, Trump said of the Republican losses, “I ​think ⁠a part of it was Iran, but at the same time people understood ⁠the ​importance of what I’ve ​done with Iran.”

He also said of the Democrats, “They’ll send over things that are insane, and I’ll veto them. And after a ‌couple ⁠of months of vetoes, they’ll call and they’ll say, ‘How do we get this stuff done?’ And we’ll work together.”