On Monday, Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth broke with precedent and actively campaigned for a Kentucky House candidate who is challenging incumbent GOP Rep. Thomas Massie in today’s primary election.
Even though Hegseth declared that he wasn’t acting in his official capacity, he clearly was, and arrived at the event for candidate Ed Gallrein with all the trappings of the position he holds in the administration.
The unprecedented move by Hegseth may be part of a larger plan, according to Associated Press White House reporter Michelle Price, who told CNN’s Dana Bash, “The congressman says desperate. One man’s desperate is another is determined. This is persona. This has been going on a long time. Remember that Congressman Massie actually endorsed Ron DeSantis in the 2024 primary. He was one of the few congressmen to do that. So there’s a lot here. It wasn’t just one issue that kind of set them up for this conflict.”
“What’s interesting is we’ve also heard that Pete Hegseth might be potentially interested in running for president,” Price added. “This is a very interesting kind of campaign debut, and I do wonder if on some level, we know that the president likes to kind of test how people are on the campaign trail. If we’re going to see some of that Hegseth campaign style today.”
Donald Trump had to sign off on Hegseth’s campaign stop for Gallrein. He clearly approved of such a move, and that suggests that Hegseth may be auditioning to be the so-called president’s replacement in 2028.
If you thought the country was screwed with Dementia Don in the White House, just imagine the havoc Hegseth would wreak. Not only would the U.S. try to occupy every country in the world, but we’d also have a drunken fool in charge of the nuclear arsenal.
Here’s hoping that instead of Hegseth being a candidate in two years, he’s behind bars for the rest of his life.
