Pentagon says Hegseth supports women’s right to vote despite sharing video saying otherwise

The Pentagon clarified on Thursday that Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth thinks women should have the right to vote, despite his sharing of CNN reporting which featured religious leaders he supports saying they would back the repealing of the 19th Amendment.

“Of course, the secretary thinks that women should have the right to vote,” Pentagon Press Secretary Kingsley Wilson told reporters on Thursday.

Hegseth reposted video of a CNN segment with Douglas Wilson , a self-described Christian nationalist pastor, who supports repealing the 19 th Amendment, which gives women the right to vote. Wilson’s fellow pastors told CNN’s Pamela Brown they also support the idea, saying votes should be made as households and that the men of the household would be the ones actually casting the vote.

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