“President Donald Trump nominated Rep. Wesley Hunt (R-TX) to be the next U.S. ambassador to Saudi Arabia on Monday, part of a spate of nominations sent to the Senate less than two months before the midterms decides the fate of the GOP’s control of the chamber,” Politico reports.
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