Future Trump Cabinet prospects jostle in Cleveland

There's Rep. Jeff Miller of Florida, a potential future secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department, posing for pictures with vice presidential nominee Mike Pence.

For these politicians and others, the Republican National Convention offers a singular opportunity to try to nominate themselves for posts in a future Trump administration even as Trump is being officially nominated for president.

The eyes of the political world are on Cleveland and there's no better chance to promote themselves, make nice with key Republican officials, and prove they could be an asset to Team Trump in the next administration.

[...] the senator, who was considered by Trump for vice president until he took himself out of the running, acknowledged that as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, "Certainly you would be in the realm of possibilities" for the secretary of state job.

The parade of potential future Trump administration officials on the Convention stage also included former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani; tough-talking retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn; Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions; and oil tycoon Harold Hamm, a potential energy secretary.

Instead he took on a role more befitting his foreign policy profile — and a future secretary of state — including meeting with ambassadors, sitting down with Brexit leader Nigel Farage and addressing a Jewish advocacy group.