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Trump staff line up for White House jobs<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Trump staff line up for White House jobs:-<\/strong> The political cast-offs, never-have-beens and backbench legislators who surround Donald Trump were warned that their work for the nominee would forever stain their resumes. Now they’re in line for the most influential jobs in Washington.<\/span><\/p>\n

Resumes are rolling in from operatives looking for administration work — offering one of the surest signs that whatever wound was opened during the ugly GOP primary has been healed by Tuesday night\u2019s stunning victories that handed both the White House and Congress to the Republican Party.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHe couldn’t even staff the campaign because no one wanted to be associated with him,\u201d said one Trump ally. \u201cIt\u2019s different now, but there’s going to have to be a lot of forgive and forget. A lot of people who stayed away from this campaign could be a lot of help now, and both sides will have to get over it.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, as the president-elect prepares to fly to the capital to meet with President Barack Obama, the Republican is closing in on several crucial appointments.<\/span><\/p>\n

Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus, who embraced Trump far earlier than most establishment Republicans, is now the leading candidate to serve as White House chief of staff, the position Trump intends to fill first.<\/span><\/p>\n

But he has competition. Transition chairman Chris Christie is making the case for a top job too, based on experience and loyalty, and he could wind up in the chief position, according to two sources and Vice President-elect Mike Pence. But many operatives in Trump\u2019s orbit are wary of giving Christie that top West Wing job given his Bridgegate baggage.<\/span><\/p>\n

Both Priebus and Christie are among most experienced politicians advising Trump, and together, with campaign manager Kellyanne Conway, they led a staff meeting at Trump Tower on Wednesday to lay out plans for the next 72 hours.<\/span><\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Conway, who became a near constant television presence in the campaign\u2019s final two months after being named campaign manager in the summer and whose sunny, indefatigable presence likely led many women voters to warm to Trump, could be White House press secretary, according to a source.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI think that job is hers if she wants it,\u201d the source said. \u201cNo one was more effective at carrying our message than her. On the campaign, very few staffers were accurately titled. She was officially the campaign manager but, really, she was the top spokeswoman.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Also attending Wednesday\u2019s Trump Tower meetings were Breitbart editor-turned-campaign CEO Steve Bannon, Pence, Steven Mnuchin, a former Goldman Sachs executive rumored to be a likely Treasury Secretary, Trump\u2019s son-in-law Jared Kushner, who quietly managed the day-to-day campaign operations, Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump, Rick Dearborn, and Sen. Jeff Sessions, the first senator to back Trump and a possible pick to be secretary of defense.<\/span><\/p>\n

Corey Lewandowski, Trump\u2019s original campaign manager who is still working as a CNN contributor, has remained close to the candidate since his firing in June and was spotted leaving Trump Tower on Wednesday afternoon. He, too, is jockeying for a prominent position either in the West Wing or possibly at the RNC if Trump blesses him as his chairman of choice should Priebus move over to the White House, according to sources close to Lewandowski.<\/span><\/p>\n

Hope Hicks, the only one of four original staffers to remain on the campaign from beginning to end, has always been at Trump\u2019s side\u2014and the former model is certain to remain in a similar role.<\/span><\/p>\n

Trump is eager to roll out a few proposed cabinet appointments too and possibly even to float one or two possible nominees to fill the current vacancy on the Supreme Court, according to a source.<\/span><\/p>\n

The transition team is building short lists for these big jobs, and conservative groups are suggesting names. But, this new era of cooperation inside a party that had been split in two by Trump\u2019s candidacy could see its limits reached soon. Finding consensus on opposite ends of Pennsylvania Avenue won\u2019t be easy given that much of Trump\u2019s stated policy agenda runs aground of conservative orthodoxy held by GOP leaders in Congress.<\/span><\/p>\n

House Speaker Paul Ryan, who marveled Wednesday at Trump\u2019s \u201cincredible political feat\u201d and spoke of being \u201cvery excited about our ability to work together,\u201d supports free trade and the Trans-Pacific Partnership that Trump campaigned against with great success. And Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell Wednesday was quick to throw cold water on another of Trump\u2019s ideas that had resonated with voters eager to see him \u201cdrain the swamp\u201d in Washington, stating that he opposes the president-elect\u2019s goal of enacting congressional term limits.<\/span><\/p>\n

What remains to be seen as a Trump presidency takes shape is if the political neophyte can hold fast to his outsider brand while filling his administration with enough experienced people to capably and competently govern. And how will his most ardent supporters and denizens of an emboldened alt-right\u2014the people who have believed in all his bluster, the promises to build a border wall and make Mexico pay for it, to deport undocumented immigrants, ban Muslim immigrants and investigate Hillary Clinton\u2014respond if he doesn\u2019t follow through?<\/span><\/p>\n

However Trump calibrates his approach to his first 100 days in office and those that follow, it\u2019s clear that his closest confidants think it\u2019s Trump, not Capitol Hill Republicans, who has the governing mandate and that the onus is those outside his orbit to fall in line with the agenda chosen by the man walking into the White House.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This all took shape because he courageously and fearlessly stood up for values that millions of Americans believe in that nobody, not even Republican leaders, would defend before,\u201d said Sessions, the Alabama Republican, early Wednesday morning, crediting Trump\u2019s hardline positions on curbing immigration and cracking down on free trade.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/11\/donald-trump-staff-transition-231161<\/span><\/p>\n

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