{"id":2376810,"date":"2024-12-05T16:48:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-05T21:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-want-hegseth-at-the-pentagon-68-support-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-12-05T16:48:59","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T21:48:59","slug":"republicans-want-hegseth-at-the-pentagon-68-support-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-want-hegseth-at-the-pentagon-68-support-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans want Hegseth at the Pentagon \u2014 68% support &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-want-hegseth-at-the-pentagon-68-support-washington-examiner%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2376810&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exposed-cnns-debate-moderators-were-in-bed-with-deep-states-fake-anti-trump-campaign\/\" title=\"EXPOSED: CNN\u2019s Debate Moderators Were In Bed With Deep State\u2019s Fake Anti-Trump Campaign\">provided\u2063 text appears<\/a>\u2062 to be a snippet of HTML code\u2064 for \u2062a webpage, \u200cfeaturing a &#8220;Read more&#8221; button that likely allows \u2064users to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ftc-resurrects-attempt-to-block-microsoft-acquisition-of-call-of-duty-developer\/\" title=\"FTC revives bid to halt Microsoft&#039;s Call of Duty developer acquisition.\">expand content<\/a>. 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The survey found that by a margin of 61%-21%, Democrats do not support confirmation. The no vote reaches 71% among liberals.<\/p>\n<p>The partisan divide on whether voters have a favorable or unfavorable opinion was also evident.<\/p>\n<p>While the country was split, with 36% having a favorable view and 27% an unfavorable view, the partisan numbers were more jarring. Among Republicans, 52% have a favorable opinion, while just 24% of Democrats said the same thing. Notably, 25% of Democrats said that they have a &ldquo;very unfavorable&rdquo; opinion.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/washington-secrets\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">SEE THE LATEST POLITICAL NEWS AND BUZZ FROM WASHINGTON SECRETS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Reports today suggest that Hesgeth, who is fighting off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/nothing-about-this-election-seems-to-add-up-the-liberty-loft\/\" title=\"Nothing about this election seems to add up | The Liberty Loft\">media reports<\/a> of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/senate\/3250760\/hegseth-pledge-not-to-drink-comforts-some-senators\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">boozing<\/a> and womanizing, is struggling to keep his nomination alive because some Republican senators who will vote on his nomination have been lukewarm.<\/p>\n<p>The poll could help his efforts if his public supporters start to weigh in on Republicans.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1903538\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1903538\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>68% of Republicans back Hegseth for defense secretary<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2647,"featured_media":2376811,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/hegseth-alcohol.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45173,3761,3756,3723,32076],"class_list":["post-2376810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-hegseth","tag-pentagon","tag-republicans","tag-support","tag-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/hegseth-alcohol.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376810","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2647"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2376810"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376814,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2376810\/revisions\/2376814"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2376811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2376810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2376810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2376810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}