Media Refocus on Tulsi Gabbard Confirmation Fight After Pete Hegseth Gets Momentum Wendell Husebo 9 Dec 2024
The establishment media on Monday seemed to reorient its focus on Tulsi Gabbard’s confirmation fight for director of national intelligence after they failed last week to derail Pete Hegseth’s nomination for secretary of defense.
The media, working with its establishment allies in Congress, published several articles last week, which failed to cause Hegseth to drop out.
The negative press appeared to have the opposite impact. Hegseth seems to have momentum heading into his confirmation hearing, with President-elect Donald Trump redoubling his support for his nominee on Truth Social and during a Sunday NBC News interview.
The media turned its focus on Monday to the nomination of Gabbard, who will meet with senators on Capitol Hill today. She will meet with Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Mike Rounds (R-SD), and James Lankford (R-OK). She will also meet with additional Senate Intelligence Committee Republicans later in the week.
Politico Playbook was one of the first to negatively report on Gabbard’s nomination fight:
— She’s prepared to add context to some of her more controversial moments. Expect Gabbard to argue that meeting with Assad isn’t the same as sympathizing with him, and she can point to instances where she called him a “brutal dictator” and made other frank assessments of his atrocities.
— She’s ready to make a broader case for her noninterventionist views and argue to senators that meetings like the one she had with Assad are critical to stopping “endless wars.” She’ll argue that it’s her military service — not Russian propaganda — that shaped her worldview.
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