Vice President Kamala Harris has revealed that she plans to appoint a Republican to her Cabinet if she wins the 2024 presidential election.
Speaking to Dana Bash in an interview on CNN, she said, “I think it would be to the benefit of the American public to have a member of my Cabinet who was a Republican.”
Harris is following a long tradition of bipartisan governance in U.S. politics. President George W. Bush appointed Democrat Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation, and President Barack Obama retained Republican Robert Gates as his Secretary of Defense, who served in the same role under Bush.
So: which Republican might she pick? Newsweek asked the generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool, ChatGPT to identify some likely contenders.
The prompt we used read: “Kamala Harris said she would appoint a Republican to her cabinet if she won the presidency. Give me a list of five likely Republicansshe might pick and why they …