GOP strategist Brad Todd on Friday said that Tulsi Gabbard made herself more difficult to confirm as President Donald Trump's choice to be director of national intelligence this week.
While discussing Gabbard's confirmation hearings, Todd said that she did herself no favors by refusing to forcefully condemn Edward Snowden for leaking sensitive government information and then absconding to Russia to protect himself from prosecution.
"I think Tulsi Gabbard's hearing was a little rough," he said. "I mean, you have to be able to say Edward Snowden is a traitor to win over the hawks in the hawk party. I think that was a mistake on her part."
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Michael Warren, an editor at the conservative publication The Dispatch, went even farther and predicted that Gabbard's nomination at the moment might not even make it out of committee.
"I think there are a lot of indications that, from that hearing and from the reaction to her answers, that there are Republicans -- Susan Collins and Todd Young are the ones everybody is watching, I think we should watch their words, what they say," he said. "They're on that committee. If they don't vote for her, it doesn't get out of committee."
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