Journalist Mark Halperin commented on the Pete Hegseth listening to on Wednesday morning and urged that it went so nicely that it even offered a framework for different Trump nominees going ahead.
He was joined by Sean Spicer, who agreed however clarified that not all the nominees will want the type of help that was required for Hegseth.
Halperin has been saying for months now that he expects most, if not all, of Trump’s picks to be confirmed.
Transcript through Actual Clear Politics:
MARK HALPERIN: I feel it helps each different nominee for 3 causes. One is that they now have a template about how to do that, the right way to put together, the right way to pack the room with supporters, the right way to work the chair, the committee, how to ensure everyone’s bought statements, the best way Sean cited. Quantity two, there’s momentum now.
There’s simply this notion of the practice’s leaving. Let’s get everyone confirmed. Let’s get the federal government up and working.
And quantity three is these Republican strain for unity. You don’t need to cross Trump. Joni Ernst mentioned that template, don’t cross Trump.
So I feel it helps all of them. I nonetheless suppose Tulsi Gabbard is at the moment essentially the most endangered, however I nonetheless suppose she’s going to make it. Sean.
SEAN SPICER: I feel it’ll be fascinating, too. The one factor that we’re leaving out, I feel every thing we mentioned concerning the listening to is totally proper by way of the template. However simply do not forget that there’s solely so many sources.
Having been via this course of at a really excessive stage earlier than, you’re type of marshalling all of your sources for a few of the massive ones, proper? So that you’ve bought to watch out that on the similar time you’re not exposing, you understand, like, for instance, Chris writes up for Power At this time. I’m positive it’ll be high-quality, however I don’t suppose he’s going to have the total set of sources that you simply did for Hegseth yesterday.
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Democrats got here out with weapons blazing within the Hegseth listening to as a result of they had been making an attempt to destroy the very momentum that Halperin describes right here. It didn’t work. Hegseth is more likely to get confirmed. Even Democrats appear to be signaling defeat.