Pete Hegseth and Marco Rubio fight for political futures after Trump midterm defeat
Australian Financial Review · Andrew Tillett ·
Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth is trying to avoid blame for the Iran war, while Marco Rubio denies he is quitting the Trump administration.
London | Donald Trump’s senior cabinet members are scrambling to save their political futures, with Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth launching a defiant video of his record and Secretary of State Marco Rubio denying reports he is considering quitting to plot his own presidential bid.
The manoeuvring by Rubio and Hegseth comes a day after Vice President JD Vance publicly broke with the US president and explicitly blamed the war with Iran and US inflation for this week’s shellacking for the Republicans at the midterm elections.
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