There was little love lost from Senate Republicans over former Florida Rep. Matt Gaetz’s abrupt withdrawal Thursday as President-elect Donald Trump’s attorney general nominee.
The eight-day nomination, a brief stint that made it the third-shortest for a Cabinet seat in U.S. history, was plagued by GOP warnings that the polarizing Republican firebrand with a checkered past of sexual misconduct allegations had virtually no path to confirmation.
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