‘No Bueno’: CNN’s Har­ry Enten Says ‘It Would Take A Minor Mir­a­cle’ For Pete Hegseth To Be Con­firmed

CNN senior data reporter Har­ry Enten said Wednes­day that it would be almost mirac­u­lous for Pete Hegseth to be con­firmed as the next sec­re­tary of defense.

Pres­i­dent-elect Don­ald Trump announced on Nov. 12 that Hegseth would be his nom­i­nee to lead the Defense Depart­ment, with the vet­er­an and for­mer Fox News host sub­se­quent­ly fac­ing scruti­ny for his alleged mis­treat­ment of women. Enten, on “CNN News Cen­tral,” explained that the bet­ting odds sug­gest Hegseth is unlike­ly to be con­firmed as his chances are now low­er than those of Repub­li­can Flori­da Rep. Matt Gaetz when he with­drew from con­sid­er­a­tion to be Trump’s nom­i­nee for attor­ney gen­er­al. (RELATED: Trump Announces John Rat­cliffe As CIA Direc­tor Pick)

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“Oh my. Chance that Pete Hegseth is con­firmed as the defense sec­re­tary. You look, three weeks ago … He had an 83% chance, per the bet­ting mar­kets, tum­bling down, a drop of more than 70 per­cent­age points,” Enten said. “Holy tole­do, 12% now. I mean, Matt Gaetz, when he steps aside, still had more than a 30% chance of becom­ing the next attor­ney gen­er­al. This is just at 12%.”

“This is the type of odds when you real­ly think that it would take a minor mir­a­cle, a mini Hail Mary to, in fact, be con­firmed by the Unit­ed States Sen­ate. The bot­tom line is this: The bet­tors very down on Pete Hegseth,” he con­tin­ued. “You could do it in any lan­guage you want to do it, you could do ‘oy, no bueno, no good,’ this 12%. Could it hap­pen? Yeah, maybe. But chances are this dude is not going to get con­firmed as the next defense sec­re­tary.”

Hegseth’s moth­er Pene­lope Hegseth emailed her son on April 30, 2018, while he was going through a divorce, to con­demn his alleged mis­treat­ment and belit­tling of women “for his own pow­er and ego,” The New York Times first report­ed. How­ev­er, she told “Fox & Friends” host Steve Doocy Wednes­day that she wrote the email “in haste,” say­ing that she wants to “dis­cred­it” the media for alleged­ly threat­en­ing her before pub­lish­ing the email.

“I am here to tell the truth, to tell the truth to the Amer­i­can peo­ple and tell the truth to the sen­a­tors on [Capi­tol Hill], espe­cial­ly our female sen­a­tors,” Hegseth’s moth­er said. “I real­ly hope that you will not lis­ten to the media and that you will lis­ten to Pete … Let’s go back 7 years, which, if we all went back 7 years, we would see that we are not the peo­ple that we are today.”

“But they were going through, Pete and his wife at the time, were going through a very dif­fi­cult divorce. It was a very emo­tion­al time, and I’m sure many of you across the coun­try under­stand how dif­fi­cult divorce is on a fam­i­ly,” she con­tin­ued. “There’s emo­tions, we say things, and I wrote that in haste, I wrote that with deep emo­tions, I wrote that as a par­ent.”

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