By Free Republic | Created at 2024-12-05 17:41:18 | Updated at 2024-12-22 11:32:09
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Ernst Declines to Give Support to Hegseth During Fox News Appearance
Breitbart ^ | 12/05/2024 | Jeff Poor
Posted on 12/05/2024 9:21:53 AM PST by ChicagoConservative27
Thursday on FNC’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Joni Ernst (R-IA) declined to support former Fox News host Pete Hegseth, President-elect Donald Trump’s pick for defense secretary.
The Iowa Republican said that the vetting process needed to continue.
“I did have a very long, lengthy discussion with Pete yesterday,” she said. “I appreciate his service to the nation. I, too, am also a combat veteran. So we talked about a number of those issues and will continue with the vetting process. I think that is incredibly important. So again, all I’m saying is we had a very frank and productive discussion. And I know we will continue to have conversation in the upcoming months.”
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TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: attentionseeking; declines; ernst; hegseth; selfrighteous; support
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Figures with this cow
To: ChicagoConservative27
she wants to be primaried
2 posted on 12/05/2024 9:22:47 AM PST by imabadboy99
To: ChicagoConservative27
butt she’s conservative??
3 posted on 12/05/2024 9:23:24 AM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
To: ChicagoConservative27
4 posted on 12/05/2024 9:24:23 AM PST by stanne
To: ChicagoConservative27
Get your head out of your ass, Iowa...Ernst needs to go.
5 posted on 12/05/2024 9:25:27 AM PST by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
To: who knows what evil?
To: ChicagoConservative27
Declines to give support but didn’t decline to vote for him. There will be a whole lotta attention seeking going on before the hearing.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Ernst wants to become what is called a virtuous objector, thereby gaining credibility for her pet cause.
8 posted on 12/05/2024 9:28:55 AM PST by nwrep
To: imabadboy99
Let’s do it. She’s part of the Mitch McConnell cabal and needs to be sent home.
9 posted on 12/05/2024 9:30:26 AM PST by vivenne
To: nwrep
put her on notice that Iowa wants a new conservative to replace her. No more games!
To: All
Trump should leak out he is considering relocating some military units from say, Iowa, to say Oklahoma, or Texas...potentially devastating that state economically...
11 posted on 12/05/2024 9:32:43 AM PST by DHerion
To: ChicagoConservative27
Yes,
Because she believes that she is entitled to that position.
Joni Ernst ousted from Senate leadership team, defeated by Sen. Tom Cotton
by Valeree DunnWed, November 13th 2024 at 9:43 PM
U.S. Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, lost her bid Wednesday to lead the Senate as Republican Conference chair, falling to Sen. Tom Cotton, R-Ark. This means she won’t hold a role in Senate leadership.
12 posted on 12/05/2024 9:34:27 AM PST by KeyLargo
To: ChicagoConservative27
It’s up to Thune to get this done. All these confirmation hearings are the first round of tests that will see if the GOP is going to help change America, or stand in the way. Either way, Trump is not going to let this term slip away due to the bad actors in Washington.
To: ChicagoConservative27
Hey, I'm in favor of women in combat... so long as they are made draft eligible...
14 posted on 12/05/2024 9:36:39 AM PST by Mathews (I have faith Malachi is right!!! Any day now...)
To: ChicagoConservative27
Kari Lake was born and raised in Iowa
What if she returns home to primary Joni Ernst in 2026 and take her Senate seat?
15 posted on 12/05/2024 9:37:21 AM PST by KeyLargo
To: ChicagoConservative27
Is she the one pushing duhsaintis? Or maybe she wants the position herself?
16 posted on 12/05/2024 9:38:17 AM PST by Just mythoughts (Psalm 2. Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing?)
To: ChicagoConservative27
She is part of the problem.
From wiki.
“In an interview with Time Magazine in 2014, Ernst said that she was sexually harassed in the military, saying, “I had comments, passes, things like that” that she was able to stop, and said she would support removing investigation and prosecution of sexual assault cases from the chain of command.”
17 posted on 12/05/2024 9:38:21 AM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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