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Vice President JD Vance formed the tiebreaking ballot to confirm Pete Hegseth arsenic the adjacent U.S. Secretary of Defense precocious Friday and mightiness consciousness a spot similar Ohio State backmost Will Howard.
Vance, an Ohio State alum, celebrated Hegseth's confirmation with an anecdote that referenced his alma mater's recent 34-23 nationalist championship triumph implicit Notre Dame.
"As I learned with the Buckeyes conscionable a week ago, erstwhile you triumph the championship, it doesn't substance what the people was. We won the title connected this one. We've got a large Secretary of Defense. We're arrogant of him, and he's going to bash a large job," Vance said.
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Vance has been connected a rotation with sports analogies lately.
After erstwhile President Joe Biden falsely insisted the Constitution had been amended to see the the Equal Rights Amendment arsenic the 28th amendment, Vance mocked that conception with a baseball comparison.
Vance responded to Biden's declaration successful a station connected X, joking that Biden should enactment the precocious disgraced MLB icon Pete Rose successful the Baseball Hall of Fame.
"Hey Joe if we’re doing fake s--- connected the mode retired tin you state Pete Rose into the Hall of Fame?" Vance wrote, successful notation to an infamous shot debate. Rose, MLB's all-time deed person who died successful September, was banned from the athletics for beingness for illegally betting connected games.
Vance, meanwhile, got to witnesser the Buckeyes' archetypal nationalist rubric since 2014 the aforesaid time helium and President Donald Trump were inaugurated. Vance has been a proud, vocal Ohio State shot instrumentality passim his governmental vocation arsenic a erstwhile legislator from the state.
Vance adjacent joked astir skipping Monday's inauguration to ticker the Buckeyes instrumentality connected Notre Dame successful Atlanta.
"Hopefully everyone is chill with maine skipping the inauguration truthful I tin spell to the national rubric game," Vance joked successful a station connected societal media.
During the campaign, Vance revealed helium told Trump his loyalty to the Buckeyes mightiness impact Trump's chances of winning the cardinal battleground authorities of Michigan.
"When helium archetypal asked maine to beryllium a VP, I was like, 'Well, you know, hopefully we don't suffer Michigan by similar 900 votes, due to the fact that you're going to regret it. 'Cause it's astir apt conscionable a 1000 p---ed-off Wolverine fans who wouldn't ballot for a Buckeye," Vance said during an quality connected OutKick's "The Clay Travis and Buck Sexton Show."
"But I deliberation that astir Michiganders are going to beryllium capable to enactment sports rivalries speech and enactment the state first, which is what, of course, each of america judge is the astir important thing."
The Democratic National Committee attempted to exploit Vance's transportation to Ohio State with a run strategy successful Michigan successful aboriginal September. The DNC flew a level implicit a Michigan shot crippled Sept. 7 with a banner that said, "J.D. Vance [loves] Ohio State [plus] Project 2025."
However, the Trump-Vance summons ended up easy carrying Michigan.
Hegseth, 44, a erstwhile Minnesota National Guard serviceman who served successful Iraq and Afghanistan, secured the relation to pb the Pentagon after weeks of aggravated governmental play implicit his information and nationalist scrutiny of his idiosyncratic life.
The Senate was deadlocked astatine 50-50 with 3 Republicans — Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska; Susan Collins, R-Maine; and Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. — joining the Democrats successful opposing Hegseth's confirmation.
The stalemate forced Vance to formed the tiebreaking vote, securing his confirmation.
"It's not the archetypal clip the header reads, ‘Junior enlisted Marine bails retired inferior Army officer,'" Hegseth, a erstwhile Fox News big joked, referencing Vance's erstwhile work successful the U.S. Marine Corps.
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