Attorney general nominee Pam Bondi faced heated questions from Democratic senators Wednesday in her confirmation hearing as they scrutinized her loyalty to President-elect Donald Trump and demanded she address his 2020 election loss.

Bondi, a staunch Trump ally, sought to strike a balance between insisting she would operate independently of the incoming president while carefully avoiding comments that could irk him. Trump soured on his last two attorneys general in his first term after they bucked his demands.