More Republican voters think Pete Hegseth should resign, poll finds

Total of 38% of Republican voters agree Hegseth should quit, compared to just a third who think he should keep job

More Republican voters think that Pete Hegseth, the US defense secretary, should resign than those who think he should remain in his job, according to a poll conducted after he and other Trump administration officials shared sensitive military attack plans with a journalist who was accidentally added to a message group chat.

Hegseth outlined details of a US airstrike in Yemen in a Signal group chat that included Donald Trump’s vice-president, JD Vance, as well as his national security adviser, Mike Waltz, who mistakenly added Jeffrey Goldberg, editor-in-chief of the Atlantic, to the chat.