Donald Trump is calling around Republican senators to make the case for his most debated cabinet pick — Matt Gaetz for attorney-general.
Trump knew that Gaetz, a former Florida congressman, faced a fight to be confirmed in the Senate as America’s top law officer. However, the president-elect does not have a plan B after rejecting his transition team’s shortlist of candidates, whom he deemed unlikely to carry out the far-reaching restructuring of the Department of Justice that he wants.
The battle has become a test of strength between the Senate, which is reluctant to be steamrolled and is balking at several unconventional nominees, and Trump, who never likes to concede defeat and believes he won an election mandate to put his own stamp on the way the government is run.
