Takeaways from Pete Hegseth's contentious confirmation hearing

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

36% : But Trump has stood by his pick, and skeptical GOP senators have largely backed down amid a concerted campaign among Trump-allied activists to target Republicans who oppose his nominees.
31% : ""What became very evident to us from the beginning, there was a coordinated smear campaign orchestrated in the media against us," Hegseth said, adding that the allegations were an attempt to through him to smear Trump, "who's had to endure the very same thing for much longer amounts of time.
28% : Hegseth dismisses allegations as 'coordinated smear campaign'Hegseth, an Army combat veteran and weekend former host of "Fox and Friends," told senators that Trump chose him to be defense secretary specifically because he's not like the defense secretaries of the past several decades.

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