Contestants!
“Very organized process taking place as I decide on Cabinet and many other positions,” Trump tweeted after a New York Times story describing a chaotic transition. “I am the only one who knows who the finalists are!”
There are rounds of voting: “Romney and Giuliani make the final 4 cut for Trump’s secretary of state finalists,” reads a Post headline.
Loyalty is key, and longtime Trump backer Rudy Giuliani has an advantage there. It’s also important for contestants to look the part. Trump described Mitt Romney as “right out of ‘central casting’” for the role of secretary of state, according to the Times, the same phrase he used to describe Mike Pence when he picked him as his running mate.
When vying for the affections of a single person on “The Bachelor,” many contestants take to warning him that others aren’t there for the right reasons. Trump transition aides may be trying to warn the president-elect of the same thing — such as senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, who declared publicly that Romney “went out of his way to hurt Donald Trump” in the past.
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