Of 44 people who served in Donald Tump's cabinet during his first administration, only four endorsed him for the presidency in 2024. As he told influential podcaster Joe Rogan days before the election, his biggest mistake was to appoint 'disloyal people'. The first appointment to be announced by the Trump team was not a huge surprise. Trump said that Wiles had 'just helped me achieve one of the greatest political victories in American history', describing her as 'tough, smart, innovative', and 'universally admired and respected'. An experienced political operator who cut her political teeth working on Ronald Reagan's campaign team in 1980, Wiles has decades of experience in Republican politics in Florida, where she masterminded Ron DeSantis's successful campaign for governor. Once a bitter rival whom Trump ridiculed as 'little Marco' when he ran against him in the 2016 Republican primaries, Marco Rubio was elected to the US senate in 2010 with the support of Tea Party funding....
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