‘Clear vision’: Tories rally around Hegseth after ‘crushing’ fiery confirmation hearing

Reactions poured in social networks and elsewhere, as Defense Secretary nominee Pete Hegseth, he was criticized by Democrats on Capitol Hill after a tense confirmation hearing that often got personal.

“Pete Hegseth is crushing it,” former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer published in X. “It’s refreshing to hear someone relentlessly focus on warriors and lethality, without playing the Washington word salad game of forcing nominees to talk like the social workers who run government agencies.”

“The Senate likes to claim that the hearings are serious, deliberative acts of policymaking and statecraft, but the behavior of many Democrats on the Senate Armed Services Committee during Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing Tuesday revealed the sad truth that most Senate hearings, confirmation or not, are kabuki. theater,” Bradley Devlin, politics editor of The Daily Signal, told Fox News Digital.

Ned Ryun, president of ‘American Majority’, told Fox News Digital that Hegseth handled himself “magnificently”.

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“He communicated a clear vision for a new day at the Pentagon where the Defense Department leaves behind the weakness of awakening and focuses on deterrence through force,” Ryun said. “And when the Democrats tried to use the anonymously sourced attacks to undermine Pete, he handled them gracefully. It was really a great hearing for him and I have no doubt that he will be easily confirmed.”

“They didn’t put a glove on Hegseth today,” CNN political commentator Scott Jennings published in X. “Why are the Dems sending their dumbest members to this important committee?”

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“This hearing has made two things abundantly clear: 1. The left remains fully committed to the disastrous, woke, weak, and failed policies that were soundly rejected in November,” reports former HUD Secretary Ben Carson and his Mrs. Candy published in X. “It’s actually sad. 2. Pete Hegseth will be a fantastic Secretary of Defense. That’s how it’s done.”

“While Democratic senators distracted themselves with allegations and character assassinations, Pete Hegseth stayed the course on what the military is all about: lethality,” said Caroline Downey, a writer for the National Review and a visiting fellow at the Independent Forum Women, on Fox News Digital.

“As the daughter of a West Point graduate and an Army captain who served in Vietnam, I can say that those primary goals have fallen subordinate to progressive political goals,” she continued. “Military academies have surrendered to awakened ideology, jeopardizing their purpose of producing outstanding leaders of intellectual, mental and physical strength who can protect and defend the United States. Although Democratic lawmakers accused of abandoning veterans, Hegseth demonstrated that he has always been dedicated to their well-being not just in words but in deeds.”

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Sen. Jim Banks, R-Ind., said after the hearing that it’s important that Hegseth be confirmed “immediately” and allowed to start as soon as possible.

“For me, it’s important that I get to work right away,” Banks told reporters.

“We can’t vote to confirm it out of committee until President Trump is President Trump again. So on January 20th, the committee will meet and we’ll take it out of committee … and hopefully it will go to a vote immediately . on the ground because we can’t wait,” he continued.

After the hearing, several Senate Democrats expressed reluctance to support Hegseth, saying he was unqualified.

Fox News Digital’s Morgan Phillips contributed to this report