Kristi Noem’s confirmation as Department of Homeland Security secretary Saturday gives further momentum to President Donald Trump’s nominees while giving vote counters the ability to figure out how to push through more difficult nominations, former Trump adviser Roger Stone said on Newsmax. 

“We’re setting a template of victory here [with] the narrow victory of Pete Hegseth yesterday,” Stone told Newsmax’s “Saturday Report.”

He added that “nothing succeeds like success,” but there are the “more difficult” nominations such as Tulsi Gabbard for director of national intelligence, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as the head of Health and Human Services, and Kash Patel for the FBI.

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