Posted on 12/04/2024 3:39:11 AM PST by RandFan
Former Rep. Tulsi Gabbard (Hawaii) is emerging as a tough confirmation lift for President-elect Trump, even as other nominees such as Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for the Pentagon, run into serious hurdles.
Gabbard, Trump’s pick to become director of national intelligence (DNI), has received less attention in recent days compared to Hegseth, who has seen multiple bombshell reports pop up about his treatment of women, or Kash Patel, the president-elect’s controversial pick to lead the FBI.
But a number of aides and senators view her path as the most difficult of the three.
“I think Gabbard, out of the three, still has the toughest path,” one Senate GOP aide told The Hill, referring to Gabbard, Hegseth and Patel. “[She] is the most at risk.”
A number of GOP senators are skeptical about her foreign policy dealings and her trustworthiness in potentially heading the nation’s intelligence apparatus.
Although Gabbard is a favorite of Trump World, the Senate Republican Conference remains a different type of playing field, as it still contains a number of defense hawks and supporters of Ukraine in their ongoing war with Russia.
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So the media has taken out Gaetz, and now possibly Hegseth, so they are moving on to Gabbard.
If the left and their loyal media have their way, Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger will be making Trump’s cabinet picks. They are Republicans you know.
They’re overstepping the mark with this one. She is 100% clean!
They want a Romney cabinet. Screw that, the people want Trump!
Senate back to the old ways already.
“...one Senate GOP aide told The Hill...”
why anonymous
“...one Senate GOP aide...”
identifying an important “under the radar” locus of utterly pestilent never-Trumpism
They will try to get as many nominees as possible to drop out, get pulled or be rejected. They are focused, ruthless and relentless in trying to weaken Trump.
Appoint her as a Czar and don’t fill the position. It worked for Obama.
The MIC doesn't want her, plain and simple.
She should have run on the ticket with RFK Jr. They would have had a decent chance. I don’t know how I feel about her now.
The media has no play in this. That should have been obvious from the election. Americans..real ones anyway, don’t believe anything the media says.
The GOP needs to fall inline period.
What a shame that Gaetz, Hegseth, Gabbard, Kennedy, the whole bunch of them, had not just been on “the island” 27 times, cavorting with underaged women as they snorted cocaine. It would have been so much easier, as that doesn’t seem to bother anyone!
UKRAINE is #1 for these senators. Remember this.
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And like the Israeli conflict, it should be # 1 for all Americans. The fight for freedom never ends, only fools think otherwise.
“She is 100% clean!”
Not sure why people say this all the time, to be sure Gabbard has said all the right things the past few years. However, technically she did run for POTUS against President Trump in 2020 and this suggests her brain is a little late to the party.
Let them fight their own wars on their own dime.
the war is not over we need to neuter these pr##S who defy the American peoples mandate
In his opus to the senate, Rob RINO Portman mentioned that he had been to Ukraine 10 times since 2014. I wonder who he was rolling with.
It’s time there was a shot across the bow to the RINOs in the senate. The speaker of the house should subpoena Portman and ask him 20 questions.
Portman was also the one who carried the ball to put Mayorkas over the finish line for DHS chief. How in hell is a foreign born from a communist country head of the department of homeland security. You can’t make this up.
Tulsi Gabbard is a favorite of Trump World, but the Senate
Republican Conference contains avid supporters of Ukraine.
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<><>Trump’s big victories: Wy (72.3%), WVa (70.1%), N/Dk (67.5%), Idaho (66.8%), Ok (66.1%).
<><>Trump received more than 2.5 million votes than he did in 2020
<><>Trump gained ground in all 50 states
<><>Harris saw a decline of seven million votes from Biden’s total 2020.
<><>Texas boosted Trump’s total in the popular vote by a net of 900,000-plus votes
<><>Florida a competitive state saw a dramatic swing in Trump’s direction.
<><>Trump’s win reflects major shifts in South Fla and South Texas Latino voters.
<><>Dem Gov Whitmer outspent Repubs 4-to-1, but Repubs still made gains in state elections.
<><>Dems saw huge vote declines in blue states.
<><>NY votes sank by more than 800,000 from Biden’s 2020 total.
<><>Ohio Sen Sherrod Brown, working-class champion, toppled by a Republican
<><>Biden’s party is increasingly dominated by elite voters.
<><>Pa Democrat Sen Bob Casey lost, but refused to concede,
<><>Trump Won More Black Voters Than Any Republican in 48 Years—
<><>Trump won 101 Chicago precincts-—home to high numbers of city workers,
<><>Trump won 22% of the Chicago vote-—increased from 2020’s 16%
<><>Pelosi’s own deep-blue S/Francisco base saw a 7-point swing to Trump.
<><>President Trump won 312 of 538 electoral votes, including all seven battleground states.
<><>Georgia Republicans create a private-school vouchers program.
<><>Republican flips CA seat (district has 14 pt Dem registration advantage)
<><>Republicans control the Georgia General Assembly.
<><>Trump-backed Republican takes Alaska’s only House seat.
<><>NYC Asian precincts saw a 31% rightward shift to Trump.
<><>Pubbies popular vote lead is 4 million (1.4 mill by “Dem count”)
<><>late votes increase lead for Ca Republican House incumbent
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<><>issues Trump ran on polled landslide majorities.
<><>Rural areas went foursquare for Trump
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<><>Since 1980, no candidate has done better.
<><>Trump won 64% of rural voters according to exit polls.
<><>The previous best was 61% – set by Trump in 2016.
<><>Dems 6 points over Trump in NJ, is their closest surge in three decades.
<><>YouGov poll saw 57% aged 18-29 w/ favorable views of Trump, a 19 point increase.
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Says the chickenhawk.
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