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2024-12-07 Home Front: Politix
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Ernst Under Heat, Denies She''s Behind Campaign to Tank Hegseth''s Nomination
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[BREITBART] Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) on Thursday, after a groundswell of support for Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, denied she is behind a campaign on Capitol Hill to tank his nomination and seek the job herself.
She's lying and so is Miss Lindsey
''I don't have a campaign against Pete,'' she told RealClearPolitics's White House correspondent Philip Wegmann, adding that he deserved to have a Senate confirmation hearing.
''I just want to make sure the process is able to play out and that we're thoroughly vetting him. I do believe that Pete deserves to have a hearing. All the rumblings out there are absolutely false. My role as a senator is to make sure that we are putting to bed any rumors, any anonymous whatever,'' she claimed.
She claimed that if there were allegations against the current Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, ''we would have gone through that process as well.''
Ernst's denial comes as she and close ally Sen. Lindsey Graham
...soft-spoken senator from South Carolina, former best buddy of John Maverick McCain. Since McCain's demise, Graham has become more outspoken, more Republican and more of a supporter of President Trump. The speech he gave in support of Brett Kavanaugh was downright manly and really cheesed off the Dems...
(R-SC) expressed doubt about Hegseth, driving up speculation he would have to withdraw. Ernst and Graham also previously worked together to pressure Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) to drop his holds on promotions on generals due to the Biden Pentagon's child sacrifice abortion policy paying for troops to travel for child sacrifice abortions.
But while she has denied any campaign against Hegseth, the Federalist reported she has repeatedly called Trump, nagging for him to replace Hegseth.
And Democrats
 ...every time you hear the phrase white people , white supremacy, white anything but paint, you're listening to a Democrat. Ask him/her/it to reimagine something for you; they do that a lot, though not well. They can hear a dog whistle a mile or two away. They invented the spoils system and Tammany Hall, and inspired the addition of the word (Thomas) Nasty to the English language. They want to stop continental drift and repeal the law of unintended side effects...
close to her have been publicly promoting her to replace him.
Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), who sits on the Senate Armed Services Committee with Ernst, told news hounds, ''I'd start off with a very, very favorable inclination'' to confirm her, according to the Washington Examiner's Senate news hound, Ramsey Touchberry.
And Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), who also sits on the committee with Ernst, called her someone with ''independent judgment and integrity and high degree of insight—on military and foreign affair issues.'' He added, ''I think she'd have significant bipartisan support.''
Even some Republican senators, such as Sen. Kevin Cramer (R-ND), another member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, have floated Ernst as a possibility to replace Hegseth, later backtracking as support began to build up for him.
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-SD), another Senate Armed Services Committee Republican, also at first expressed reluctance over Hegseth, but has more recently struck a positive tone.
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