Supporters of US President-elect Donald Trump will “feel betrayed” if he appoints former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney as the country’s secretary of state, says the future president’s senior adviser Kellyanne Conway.
Appearing on CNN on Sunday, Trump’s former campaign manager implied that former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani would be a better option for the key posts.
Trump’s choices for the United States’ top diplomat have apparently been narrowed to one of the two figures.
In the run-up to the US 2016 presidential election, Romney described the real estate tycoon as “a phony, (and) a fraud.”
“His is not the temperament of a stable, thoughtful leader. His imagination must not be married to real power,” the governor said in a speech in March.
However, the two long-time foes met privately in a clubhouse at Trump’s golf course in Bedminster Township, New Jersey, on November 19.
According to reports, Vice President-elect Mike Pence,…