Who might be in Trump's new Cabinet? List of reported contenders

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

55% : Trump later nominated Ratcliffe to be the director of national intelligence in 2020.
47% : Wiles joined Trump's campaign after previously working on Florida Ron DeSantis' unsuccessful 2024 run, and she's widely credited with playing a key role in helping deliver Trump the White House for a second time.
47% : "He's dying to do this," Trump said of Musk in an October interview with Fox News.
46% : Elon Musk went to the mat campaigning for Trump in the final weeks before Election Day, describing himself as "dark MAGA" and "dark, Gothic MAGA" at Trump's rallies before the election.
43% : Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican senator, became one of Trump's key supporters in the Senate after losing the 2016 Republican primary to Trump.
40% : Trump, for his part, has said that Kennedy will have carte blanche to "do what he wants" with women's health and can generally "go wild on health.
39% : Trump has said that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will play a leading role in health, but it's unclear what his position would be.
36% : Instead, the report said, teams for Kennedy and Trump have spoken recently about him being a czar-like official within the Trump administration, who has frequent access to the president.
29% : Trump has signaled at least some openness to the idea of Musk spearheading cost-cutting across the federal government.
19% : Multiple media outlets have reported that people are already floating names for who will fill key roles in a second Trump administration, and that the president-elect's transition team is racing to put together a shortlist after Trump defeated Vice President Kamala Harris in Tuesday's election.
18% : Lighthizer faces stiff competition for the latter position; Trump is also reportedly weighing Republican Senator Bill Hagerty of Tennessee and Jay Clayton, former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission.
12% : John Ratcliffe, former U.S. representative from Texas, was also a stalwart Trump supporter on Capitol Hill and spearheaded Republicans' defense of Trump during the Russia investigation and his first impeachment in 2019.

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