CNN: “Marking the unpredictability of the state of affairs, Trump was still making calls to people in recent days.”
“Trump even reached out again to Condoleezza Rice, the secretary of state under former President George W. Bush, after a donor encouraged him to make the call over the weekend. Rice, though, doesn’t want the job, according to a separate source familiar with the process.”
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