Scott Brown is in the running to be the US secretary of veterans affairs, the former US senator said President-elect Donald Trump told him Friday.

“He said he’s making his highest recommendation to his committee that they consider me,” said Brown, who endorsed Trump shortly before the presidential primary in New Hampshire, where Brown ran unsuccessfully for Senate in 2014. Trump won a runaway victory in the state.

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