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Republicans don’t have much hope for ex-Representative Matt Gaetz’s odds of getting into the presidential Cabinet. The remarkably unpopular Florida politico was nominated by Donald Trump to become the country’s attorney general on Wednesday,

Senators and senators-elect barely had time to elect new leadership on Wednesday, giving South Dakota Sen. John Thune the role of majority leader, before that leadership was put to the test with the prospect of confirming controversial former Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., as the next United States attorney general.