WASHINGTON — Mike Davis, Founder and President of the Article III Project, issued the following statement after Pete Hegseth’s confirmation hearing before the Senate Armed Services Committee.
“Despite their lies and smears, Democrats failed to lay a single finger on Pete Hegseth. The American people voted for change in November, and Hegseth represents much-needed change for the Pentagon. The U.S. armed forces should produce fearsome warfighters, not woke generals, who all too often are politicians in uniform. Pete Hegseth will help President Trump deliver on his campaign promise to rebuild America’s military to realize its full potential while cleaning out the career bureaucrats who ran it into the ground. Article III Project helped patriots across the country contact their senators more than 25,000 times to give them an attitude adjustment on Pete Hegseth’s nomination. We look forward to the Senate’s confirmation of Pete Hegseth as our next Secretary of Defense,” said Davis.
In the lead-up to this confirmation battle, Davis and A3P Executive Vice President Mark Lucas, who succeeded Hegseth at Concerned Veterans for America, published op-eds in support of the nomination. To date, A3P’s phone-to-action program, which connected voters with senators telling them to support Hegseth, has led to tens of thousands of connections from thousands of voters.
The Article III Project (A3P) was founded by veteran GOP operative and attorney Mike Davis, who, after helping win the Senate confirmation battles of Neil Gorsuch and Brett Kavanaugh, developed the reputation as a “take-no-prisoners conservative eager to challenge the left with hardball tactics,” as reported in The New York Times.
A3P defends constitutionalist judges, punches back on radical assaults on judicial independence (like court-packing) and opposes judicial and other nominees who are outside of the mainstream. Davis previously served as Chief Counsel for Nominations to Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) on the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary and led the Senate confirmation of Justice Brett Kavanaugh and a record number of circuit court judges.
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