Democrats will soon have a leadership vacuum, and there will be no shortage of highly ambitious governors, senators and transportation secretaries looking to fill it.
Advisers to the president-elect, who already has a strong hold on congressional Republicans, want him to tighten his grip by torpedoing the bid of the establishment front-runner for the post.
Kamala Harris’s defeat is personal for Representative Barbara Lee, a California Democrat retiring this year. But after five decades in the fight, she says she is undaunted.
The president-elect appears to have settled on the Florida senator, who has taken hard-line positions on China, Iran and Venezuela, to be the nation’s top diplomat.
Ms. Wiles, the next White House chief of staff, said Donald Trump would move quickly to reinstate orders from his first term that President Biden had revoked, though she did not specify which ones.
President-elect Donald Trump is expected to name the immigration hard-liner Stephen Miller as deputy chief of staff and announced a former ICE official as his “border czar.”