Republican Governors are ‘Giddy’ as Trump Prepares Presidency
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Republican governors meeting for the first time since Donald Trump won the White House are gearing up for Washington to begin passing a broad-ranging conservative agenda after years of gridlock, bolstered by their party’s wide electoral success.
South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, who once quipped that Trump represented "everything a governor doesn’t want in a president," said during a panel discussion at an annual meeting of the Republican Governors Association in Florida that she was "just giddy" about the possibilities that lay ahead for Republicans, who now control the majority of states and the nation’s capital.