New Senate Majority Leader John Thune reportedly told President-elect Donald Trump that he feels Pete Hegseth, Trump’s pick for Secretary of Defense, will have enough votes to be confirmed, according to a report.
“Three sources” told CBS News that Thune had told Trump in private that “he believes” Hegseth “will have the votes to be confirmed as Secretary of Defense.”
However, a spokesman for Thune told the outlet that there are “two things” that are not talked about publicly: “Whip counts and private conversations with the president.”
Since Trump announced he was nominating Hegseth to serve as Secretary of Defense, Hegseth has faced several smear campaigns launched against him.
As Breitbart News’s Kristina Wong previously reported, one of the smears launched against him was regarding claims that his “tattoos were linked to white supremacy” when the…