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NEW YORK, (MILLAT+APP/AFP) – US President-elect Donald
Trump is considering Mitt Romney as secretary of state, in what would be a major olive branch to mainstream Republicans who opposed the tycoon’s candidacy, a report said Thursday.
CNN and NBC said Trump would meet over the weekend with Romney, the
former governor of Massachusetts who was the Republicans’ unsuccessful 2012 White House candidate against President Barack Obama.
NBC said that Trump was considering Romney as secretary of state,
which would put a figure with more orthodox Republican views in charge of US foreign policy.
Senator Jeff Sessions, an arch-conservative Republican from Alabama
who is one of Trump’s closest allies in Congress, said he expected the incoming president to consider the “capable” Romney for some position.
“I think it’s good that the president-elect is meeting with people
like Romney. There are a lot of talented people that he needs good relationships with,” said Sessions, himself a top contender for a cabinet post.
“And I think Mr Romney would be quite capable of doing a number of
things,” Sessions told reporters after meeting the president-elect at his Trump Tower in Manhattan.
Romney was one of the staunchest Republican opponents of Trump’s
candidacy during the party’s primaries, describing the businessman as vulgar, unprincipled and threatening to US values.