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Conservative organizations are targeting Republican senators, saying that they will pay a price if they do not back the president-elect’s choice for defense secretary.
By Kate Kelly and Kenneth P. Vogel
Washington reports
Although Pete Hegseth is for verification audiences, an external equipment coalition exercises tension in the Republican senators to verify it as the chosen president Donald J. Trump in the Défense, or in fact facing intimidating political benefits.
Mr. Hegseth, a military veteran and former television anchor, has been grappling with a variety of damaging accusations — including bouts of heavy drinking, financial mismanagement and sexual assault — that critics are using to question his fitness for the post. At the same time, he has also been dogged by concerns that he lacks the management experience needed to manage a Defense Department with a budget of more than $800 billion and nearly three million employees.
Until now, Trump has argued Mr. Hegseth, encouraging him to fight accusations about his behavior beyond. Mr. Hegseth denied having committed sexual assault, saying that the assembly with the plaintiff in 2017 agreed. He said he is a victim of a defamation campaign. A well -financed team phalanx that supports Mr. Trump and his possible cabinet options, adding popular podcasters and defense teams of political defenders, say that Mr. Hegseth is the right user for the position and has helped his survival Politics is a survival a caused cause.
Some of those efforts are coordinated with Mr. Trump, according to several other people concerned and who asked for anonymity because it was not legal to discuss the strategy.
A Trump transition official did not respond to an observation request.
The concerted impulse is an animated hole in the first administration of Mr. Trump, when the efforts of his external supporters were scattered and sub -financed.
This time around, backers of Mr. Trump and his agenda are “pretty coordinated,” said Stephen K. Bannon, the former Trump White House adviser whose podcast, “War Room,” has talked up Mr. Hegseth and other cabinet picks.
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