In his Carlson Chronicles, Chris Carlson said the Trump administration missed an opportunity to have a pragmatic conservative, like U.S. Congresswoman Cathy McMorris Rodgers running his Interior Department. Carlson thinks he knows why McMorris Rodgers was brushed aside after it seemed as though she was The Donald’s choice:
President-elect Donald Trump and his transition team continue to dish out surprises. The latest example is the bait and switch they pulled on Fifth District Congresswoman Cathy McMorris-Rodgers, 47, from Spokane. Leaks from the transition team to the media, in this case no less than the
Wall Street Journal
, led media to believe she was Trump’s choice to be the 52nd Secretary of the Interior. She may have been the president-elect’s preference, but she wasn’t the choice of eldest son, Donald Junior. Both Junior and Eric Trump love to hunt, and Junior made it abundantly clear last October at a fund-raiser for his father in a hangar at the Boise Airport that the Trump family opposed selling off any federal land to states or private entities.
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Question: Do you know much about our neighboring congresswoman, Cathy McMorris Rodgers?