Harris told CNN Thursday that it would be to “the benefit of the American public” to embrace Republicans.
“I think it’s important to have people at the table when some of the most important decisions are being made that have different views, different experiences,” Harris told CNN ’s Dana Bash in a pre-released clip of the Democratic presidential nominee’s first extensive interview. “And I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my Cabinet who was a Republican.”
Harris floated no names of potential candidates to serve as her token Republican. But her comment represents an olive branch to “Never Trumper” Republicans and independents at a time when the country is bitterly divided and the race between Harris and Donald Trump is afor president, including well over 200 former aides and officials who served former President George W. Bush, the late Sen. John McCain of Arizona and Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah.
Several Republicans were hailed prominently at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago last week, including former Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois. “I’ve got 68 days to go with this election, so I’m not putting the cart before the horse,” Harris told CNN in a snippet of the interview released Thursday afternoon, choosing not to speculate on names. “But I would. I think it’s really important. I have spent my career inviting diversity of opinion.”to serve in his Cabinet: former Sen. Judd Gregg as Commerce secretary; former Rep. Ray LaHood as secretary of Transportation and Robert Gates, who Obama kept on as Defense secretary.
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