Nancy Lacore, the former U.S. Navy admiral who was ousted by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last year, did not mince words about the leader of the armed forces in a new interview.
Lacore, a Democrat and a retired three-star admiral who served in the military for 35 years before her removal in August 2025, was elected to Congress during last week’s midterm elections. Come January, she will represent South Carolina’s 1st Congressional District after defeating Republican rival Jenny Costa Honeycutt by fewer than 4,000 votes.
The congresswoman-elect was asked Sunday morning on CBS News’ Face the Nation With Margaret Brennan about her thoughts on Hegseth, who has been at the center of impeachment rumors since Democrats’ big election victories last week.
Disappointing that the margin was even that close.
Trump had won the seat by 13%. It is a very large shift in margin.
There are other places where it was by hundreds.
Depressing, really, but I’ll take any shift to the left and keep pressing for more.
Keep in mind these districts are often gerrymandered out the ass, so a few thousand is a miracle.
Yep. My new district in a county south of Nashville was a Memphis district stretched across literally half the state… it worked, unfortunately, but the problem with gerrymandering is it’s entirely a margins game and it mostly blew up in their faces this time.