Who will be the Republican member of Biden's cabinet?

Ever since FDRs third term beginning in 1941, it has been a tradition that a new president appoint one member of the opposing party to his cabinet. Who is likely to be the Republican member of Biden's cabinet and which department will they head up?

 

Which democrat served under Trump?

 

I can't find one for his administration. Not as the head of an actual department. Several positions just below that level but not a department head.

 

We would not want to engage in silly tokenism. Unless this republican publicly demanded that the Senate have a real impeachment trial with real witnesses like their oaths of office dictated, and has been referring to Biden as President -Elect Biden for the last month, he or she does not have the requisite minimum requirements to be in a Biden administration. He or she did not put country above party when it counted. We can assume it is beyond said republican now.

 

So, why should Biden do it if Trump didn't?

 

Haha, all of a sudden the Trump voters want to go back to old traditions -- after four years of Trump trashing all of those traditions. Priceless....

 

Mike Pompeo

He should pick someone willing to work for America First, not for "Trump Only". Rare bird in the current Congress really!

Unless Mitch wants to give it a try...when he returns from his Moscow holidays.

 

I figured Biden was at least somewhat beyond such pettiness.

 

Traditions like the smooth transfer of power.

 

But you didn't raise any objection when Trump broke with that tradition...

 

To be honest it never occurred to me. I was as shocked as everyone else that Donald Trump won in the first place. Then having to defend him from the instant onslaught.

Wasn't it on this forum where we had threads asking if Trump would be or should be impeached his first day in office?

 

There were some arguing that, not all. In fact I was pretty much pro Trump until about 8 months ago were I got fed up with the conspiracy theories pushing.

 

They did have a real impeachment trial just like Clinton got. Only there was a lot less actual evidence against Trump than there was Clinton.

 

Traditions like not holding political rallies in the White House. This thread could go on forever.

 

Why did you 'have' to defend Trump?

 

I can't see Biden being the one to make this choice. We should ask AOC who she would be choosing...

 

Yeah, sure, pal, she is calling the shots. Which is why she was desperately trying to run petitions from regular voters to try to influence the picks. Do you think that if she were calling the shots, she would be throwing this kind of Hail Mary???

Do you see her mentor Bernie Sanders getting a nod for the Cabinet? No, right? Despite the fact that he self-proposed to be there. Biden said no.

Look, let go of the "Biden is a puppet of the radical left" thingy. That was an election campaign talking point (and a ridiculous one, because his campaign was propped up by the DNC precisely in the hope of stopping the radical left from achieving the nomination), but the election is over so now you can stop pretending that it is true.

 

Even if they'd been defeated for now, it's a short term defeat as Joe Biden's 78 years old. The truth is, the Democratic Party is weak and needed ALL of the Trump hatred in order to beat him. Trump's not on the ballot in 2022 and in 2024. That's a massive disadvantage for them.

Honestly, the state of our politics will change this June. By then, Biden will have had 3-4 months in office to which any thought of the former incumbent will have been irrelevant. It'll be Biden's baby.

 

I felt obligated given his administration advanced some policies that I supported.

 

To each his own, I guess

 

Trump may very well be on the ballot in 2024, and try to prop up Trump-friendly candidates in the GOP primaries in 2022. It seems like he wants to remain relevant and wants to run again, which are both great for the Dems and terrible for the GOP.

Well, the thing of the former incumbent being irrelevant is how things SHOULD be if we were a sane country, but you've just seen the incumbent spend 4 years whining about Hillary (someone he beat) and about Obama (someone who was no longer the president).

 

No. The way you know if there is or is not 'evidence', is by admitting evidence and taking direct testimony. That is how trials of fact are run. They did not want the evidence. And sure enough, they did not see or hear any and you get to claim there wasn't any! Everyone on Team Trump wins!

If they cannot handle looking at evidence that does not gel with their biased partisan world view, they will be hiding it in a bottom drawer as member of the cabinet. Biden deserves better than picking someone like that for his administration and he shouldn't.

 

BS not how impeachment works. You brought all the testimony you had with you. And all the evidence you had it was insufficient. It is not incumbent on either the Judge, in this case Roberts or the jury, in this case the Senate to do the prosecution's, in this case the house, job for it. You did not have more time, because you couldn't fit it in before the election, which, rather than any actual crimes, was what the impeachment was all about in any case.

 

Impatient, aren't you? Maybe next time...

 

How about John McCain for Secretary of the Navy? After all, if the dead can vote why not allow them to serve in office too?