Who's in the frame to join Trump's new top team?

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : Other names being discussed include Michael Waltz, a Florida lawmaker who sits on the armed services committee in the US House of Representatives, and Robert O'Brien.UN ambassadorDuring Trump's first term, New York Congresswoman Elise Stefanik transformed from a moderate to a vocal backer.
58% : Karoline Leavitt, 27, who impressed Trump as his campaign's national press secretary, has already served as an assistant White House press secretary and may be a shoo-in to be the administration's spokesperson.
53% : Tom Homan, Trump's former acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice), stands out as the most likely pick.
52% : A software entrepreneur who sold his small company to Microsoft in 2001, Burgum briefly ran in the 2024 Republican primary before dropping out, endorsing Trump and quickly impressing him with his low-drama persona and sizeable wealth.
50% : Many who served under Trump in his first term do not plan to return, although a handful of loyalists are expected to make a comeback.
48% : But she may find herself competing for the position with the likes of former State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus; David Friedman, Trump's ambassador to Israel; and Kelly Craft, who served as UN ambassador at the end of Trump's term.
47% : Elon MuskThe world's richest man poured millions of dollars into re-electing Trump and critics say he will now have the power to shape the regulations that affect his companies Tesla, SpaceX and X.Both he and Trump have focused on the idea of him leading a new "Department of Government Efficiency", where he would cut costs and streamline what he calls a "massive, suffocating federal bureaucracy".
31% : Trump has also said he would fire Federal Bureau of Intelligence (FBI) Director Chris Wray, who he nominated in 2017 but has since fallen out with.
24% : justice department lawyer Jeffrey Clark, who is alleged to have aided Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election results; Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who has been both indicted and impeached like Trump; Matthew Whitaker, the man who took over for three months as acting attorney general after Sessions stepped down at Trump's request; Mike Davis, a right-wing activist who once clerked for Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch and has issued bombastic threats against Trump critics and journalists; and Mark Paoletta, who served in Trump's budget office and argues there is no legal requirement for a president to stay out of justice department decisions.
17% : After uneven relationships with both Jeff Sessions and William Barr, the attorneys general during his first term, Trump is widely expected to pick a loyalist who will wield its prosecutorial power in the manner of an "attack dog".
15% : Florida Senator Marco Rubio - who was most recently under consideration to be Trump's vice-president - is a major name being floated for the key cabinet post.Rubio, 53, is a China hawk who opposed Trump in the 2016 Republican primary but has since mended fences.
11% : Miller, a retired Army Special Forces colonel, ran the National Counterterrorism Center and - more recently - authored the defence chapter of the controversial Project 2025 wish list for a second Trump term, though Trump has distanced himself from the document.

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