S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley and Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster are contenders for positions in President-elect Donald Trump’s cabinet.
Trump’s transition team approached McMaster, a former S.C. attorney general, about possibly being U.S. attorney general.
“I’ve been asked if I would be interested,” said McMaster, who was the first statewide elected official nationally to endorse Trump.
In addition, members of Trump’s presidential transition team have discussed Haley as a potential secretary of state and for at least one other position, McMaster said, declining to name the other position.
“Her name has been mentioned,” McMaster said, adding, “The depths of consideration for the various names that have been mentioned for various things, I couldn’t tell you.”
MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough tweeted Wednesday that Haley, a second-term governor, reportedly is being considered by the Trump transition team for secretary of state.