Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., told Newsmax on Wednesday that Senate Republicans feel an obligation to confirm President-elect Donald Trump's Cabinet nominees because of his "convincing victory" in November.
Johnson told "Newsline" that the Senate is "going to go through the confirmation process," adding that "the bias of most Republican senators, if not all, is that President Trump won a convincing victory" and therefore "it ought to be up to him to select who he wants to staff his administration with, who he wants to work with."
"And by and large, our bias is going to be to confirm his nominees unless there's some disqualifying thing that surfaces during the confirmation process," he said. "But for my part, as I've met with these individuals, first of all, they're all intelligent. They are fighters. President Trump is going to need fighters in these agencies."
Johnson went on to claim that "it was the federal government agencies that undermined and sabotaged his first administration, and yet he still accomplished so many great things: a record economy, kept us out of wars."
Johnson said Trump is now "far more wary of what the deep state represents, the threats it represents to America. And he's going to put some fighters in there and people who can articulate his vision, what he ran on, the promises he made so that he can fulfill those promises to the American public."
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Theodore Bunker, a Newsmax writer, has more than a decade covering news, media, and politics.
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