Margaret Carlson, Columnist

See Romney Jump Through Trump's Hoops

The 2012 nominee would be the best candidate for secretary of state. That doesn't mean he'll get the job.

December 4, 2016 at 5:19 PM UTC

Margaret Carlson was a White House correspondent for Time, a weekly panelist on CNN’s “Capital Gang” and an editor at the New Republic.

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Choosing Mitt Romney to be his secretary of state would be the most presidential thing Donald Trump could do.

But that doesn’t mean he's going to do it.