Bulwark’s Sam Stein: Pete Hegseth Just Doesn’t Have the Qualifications To Be Defense Secretary

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STEIN: “And we got hints yesterday that the expectation is a very narrow vote, potentially 50/50 vote, but that Hegseth will be confirmed ultimately. And notable here, look, obviously, there’s a ton of scandal around this. This has been an incredibly messy confirmation process. But I thought Collins' statement was the most notable one, which is, 'I don’t believe you,' in essence, 'I don’t believe your conversions that you say you’ve had on women in combat are real.' And it gets to the fundamental issue with Hegseth that wasn’t, in essence, you know, convincing enough for all Republicans, which is that he’s not really, compared to anyone else for this post, qualified for it. He just doesn’t have the qualifications for it. That got overshadowed by some of the more salacious allegations against him, which in a way actually allowed Republicans to get over that, the other qualification issue.”