Former Senator Kelly Loeffler emerges as frontrunner for Trump's Secretary of Agriculture pick

Former Georgia Sen. Kelly Loeffler has emerged arsenic the favourite to go Donald Trump's adjacent caput of Agriculture. 

The 53-year-old blonde bombshell didn't dispel suggestions she was being considered for the apical Cabinet occupation earlier this week. 

She disclosed connected the Politically Georgia Podcast that she's a 'huge advocate' for agrarian America.

'I grew up connected a workplace and I'm inactive actively progressive successful agriculture,' Loeffler said.

'I'm a immense advocator for agrarian America, and astir of my bills that I passed in Congress were agrarian healthcare backing and related bills.'

Loeffler served successful the Senate briefly from 2020 to 2021 aft being appointed by Gov. Brian Kemp. 

She mislaid her spot successful a contentious runoff predetermination to Democrat Sen. Raphael Warnock.

Loffler is presently serving arsenic co-chair of President-elect Trump's Inaugural Committee alongside existent property mogul Steve Witkoff.

'The Trump Vance Inaugural Committee volition grant this magnificent triumph successful a solemnisation of the American People and our nation,' Trump said successful a connection announcing her position.

'This volition beryllium the kick-off to my administration, which volition present connected bold promises to Make America Great Again,' helium added astir his adjacent term, which begins connected January 20, 2025.

'Together, we volition observe this moment, steeped connected past and tradition, and past get to enactment to execute the astir unthinkable aboriginal for our people, restoring strength, success, and communal consciousness to the Oval Office.'

Loeffler was reported to beryllium astatine Trump's Mar-a-Lago property connected Friday afternoon. 

She's a known MAGA state who joined the president-elect connected the run way arsenic helium criss-crossed the country. 

The rumors of her assignment comes the day aft Trump tapped erstwhile Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi, 59, to beryllium his apical instrumentality enforcement official. 

Matt Gaetz withdrew his sanction from information earlier successful the time erstwhile it became wide that a lingering ungraded meant helium did not person the votes to beryllium confirmed successful the Senate.

'Pam was a authoritative for astir 20 years, wherever she was precise pugnacious connected convulsive criminals, and made the streets harmless for Florida Families,' Trump posted connected Truth Social arsenic helium made the announcement.

'Then, arsenic Florida's archetypal pistillate lawyer general, she worked to halt the trafficking of deadly drugs, and trim the calamity of fentanyl overdose deaths, which person destroyed galore families crossed our country.'

Trump has made wide that helium wants a disruptor successful the role, idiosyncratic who volition overhaul the Department of Justice and assistance propulsion done his docket from time one.

That should person been Gaetz, a combative congressman from Florida. But helium withdrew aft 8 turbulent days successful the spotlight.

He had been investigated by the Department of Justice making him a daze prime to pb it. And a drip, drip, drip of headlines astir a enactment ungraded showed nary motion of letting up.

'While the momentum was strong, it is wide that my confirmation was unfairly becoming a distraction to the captious enactment of the Trump/Vance Transition,' helium said successful announcing his withdrawal, a time aft gathering with senators successful an effort to triumph them over.