Wesley Hunt on defense secretary short list if Hegseth nomination fails

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Hunt was vetted by Trump's camp in October, before the presidential election last month, and was endorsed by Trump in his reelection bid for Texas's 38th Congressional District.
52% : He spent much of the lead-up to the election as a top campaign surrogate, garnering support among black voters for Trump.
37% : "Take whatever tiny kernels of truth, and there are tiny, tiny ones in there, and blow them up into a masquerade of a narrative about somebody that I am definitely not." Hegseth also spent Wednesday on Capitol Hill meeting with Republican lawmakers but has denied he will travel to Mar-a-Lago on Thursday to meet with Trump.
17% : But there is some concern that if Trump were to nominate Hunt, a U.S. Army veteran, it would cut further into House Republicans' vanishingly slim majority next year, as Trump has already tapped multiple GOP lawmakers to serve in his administration.

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