Scott Pruitt, John Kelly, Linda McMahon och Terry Branstad. (TT)

Wrestlingmagnat ett av Trumps nya toppnamn

Flera nya namn för toppjobb under den tillträdande presidenten Donald Trump blev kända under onsdagen. Den pensionerade generalen John Kelly har tackat ja till att leda departementet för inrikes säkerhet, bekräftade han för Fox News.

Den Kinavänliga Iowa-guvernören Terry Branstad blir USA:s näste ambassadör i Peking. Trumps relation till Kina har varit hett stoff de senaste dagarna efter ett kontroversiellt samtal med Taiwans ledare – den första kontakt USA haft med landet på den nivån sedan president Jimmy Carter 1979 accepterade Peking som den enda regeringen.

Trump har också nominerat politikern och wrestlingmagnaten Linda McMahon till chef för myndigheten för småföretagande, SBA. Han uppges också planera att utse justitiekanslern i Iowa, Scott Pruitt, till chef för myndigheten för miljöskydd.

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Linda McMahon
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Linda McMahon, född 4 oktober 1948 i New Bern, North Carolina, är en amerikansk wrestlingsmagnat, affärskvinna och republikansk politiker.
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Terry Branstad
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Terry Edward Branstad (born November 17, 1946) is an American politician who is the 42nd Governor of Iowa, in office since January 2011. Branstad was also the state's 39th governor from 1983 to 1999, and he was president of Des Moines University from 2003 to 2009. He is a member of the Republican Party. Branstad is the longest-serving governor in American history. In his 2010 political comeback, Branstad won a three-way primary election for the Republican nomination to run for governor in the general election. He faced incumbent Governor Chet Culver, a Democrat and four third party candidates on November 2, 2010, defeating Culver by 52.9% to 43.1%. Branstad entered the 2010 race as the front runner for both the primary and general elections. Independent polling in 2009 indicated that his favorability ratings hovered in the 70% range. He was widely seen as the front runner for the Republican nomination, and had wide leads in aggregate polling against the sitting governor, Chet Culver. He won the Republican primary with 50.4% of the popular vote, 9.5 percentage points ahead of his nearest competitor. In the election on November 4, 2014, Branstad was elected to an unprecedented sixth four-year term as Iowa governor. On December 14, 2015, he became the longest-serving governor in US history (breaking the record held by George Clinton of New York, who served 21 years from 1777 to 1795, and from 1801 to 1804). In early December 2016, Branstad accepted president-elect Donald Trump's offer of the post of United States Ambassador to China (PRC).
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Scott Pruitt
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E. Scott Pruitt (born May 9, 1968) is a United States lawyer and Republican politician from the U.S. state of Oklahoma. He is the current Oklahoma Attorney General. Pruitt was a State Senator, representing Tulsa and Wagoner counties from 1998 until 2006. When U.S. Congressman Steve Largent decided not to seek reelection in Oklahoma's 1st congressional district, Pruitt ran unsuccessfully for the Republican nomination to succeed Largent against the First Lady of Oklahoma, Cathy Keating and the eventual nominee and winner, John A. Sullivan. In the 2002 election cycle, Pruitt was re-elected without opposition by his home district. Rather than seek re-election in 2006, Pruitt launched a failed campaign to receive the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor of Oklahoma. On December 7, 2016 he was selected to be the next Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency by President-elect Donald Trump.
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John Kelly
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John Francis Kelly (born May 11, 1950) is a retired United States Marine Corps general and the former commander of United States Southern Command. Kelly previously served as the commanding general of the Multi-National Force—West in Iraq from February 2008 to February 2009, and as the commander of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North in October 2009. Kelly succeeded General Douglas M. Fraser as commander of U.S. Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) on November 19, 2012. Kelly was succeeded by Navy Admiral Kurt W. Tidd on January 14, 2016. On December 7, 2016, President-elect Donald Trump announced he plans to nominate Kelly to be the fifth United States Secretary of Homeland Security.
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