{"id":53146,"date":"2016-10-22T14:51:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-22T18:51:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53146"},"modified":"2016-10-22T14:52:19","modified_gmt":"2016-10-22T18:52:19","slug":"pete-hoekstra-cowardly-republicans-attacking-donald-trump-because-hes-an-agent-of-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=53146","title":{"rendered":"Pete Hoekstra: \u2018Cowardly Republicans\u2019 Attacking Donald Trump Because He\u2019s an \u2018Agent of Change\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><div id=\"attachment_53147\" style=\"width: 650px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/GettyImages-614187680-e1476878791293-640x480.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-53147\" src=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/GettyImages-614187680-e1476878791293-640x480.jpg\" alt=\"Joe Raedle\/Getty Images\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-53147\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/GettyImages-614187680-e1476878791293-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/GettyImages-614187680-e1476878791293-640x480-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-53147\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joe Raedle\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div><br \/>\nby DAN RIEHL<br \/>\nBREITBART<\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-content\">\n<h2>Former Michigan Congressman and Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee Pete Hoekstra had a wide-ranging discussion about\u00a0the 2016 election with <em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em> SiriusXM host Alex Marlow on Friday morning. Hoekstra said,\u00a0\u201cDonald Trump is the agent of change, and just about every entity in Washington, D.C., the city that has never seen a recession, is fighting Donald Trump to make sure he does not become president.\u201d<\/h2>\n<p>We expected the Democrats to fight Donald Trump,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe expected the Washington establishment to fight Trump. What we did not expect was these cowardly Republicans \u2013 who are really saying, \u2018It doesn\u2019t make any difference to us whether it\u2019s Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in the White House.\u2019 Then there are those Republicans who are saying, \u2018We actually kind of prefer her.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They won\u2019t\u00a0literally say those words, but by their actions, they\u2019re saying, \u2018We support Hillary Clinton,&#8217;\u201d he concluded.<\/p>\n<p><em>Breitbart News Daily<\/em> airs on SiriusXM Patriot 125 weekdays from 6:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m. Eastern.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LISTEN:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/289308474&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<footer class=\"articlefooter\">\n<aside>\n<h3>Read More Stories About:<\/h3>\n<\/aside>\n<\/footer>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2016\/10\/21\/pete-hoekstra-cowardly-republicans-attacking-donald-trump-because-hes-an-agent-of-change\/\">http:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/radio\/2016\/10\/21\/pete-hoekstra-cowardly-republicans-attacking-donald-trump-because-hes-an-agent-of-change\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}