Nick Ayers no longer in the running to be Trump's next chief of staff

[Zippyjuan]

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/white-house/nick-ayers-no-longer-running-be-trump-s-next-chief-n945806


Nick Ayers, the chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, will not succeed President Donald Trump's current chief of staff John Kelly, Ayers confirmed in a tweet Sunday. He had been considered the front-runner to the role after the president announced Saturday that Kelly would leave the position by year's end.

"Thank you @realDonaldTrump, @VP, and my great colleagues for the honor to serve our Nation at The White House," Ayers said in a tweet Sunday afternoon after multiple outlets reported he won't be the next White House chief of staff. "I will be departing at the end of the year but will work with the #MAGA team to advance the cause."

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The Wall Street Journal was the first outlet to report that Ayers would not be Trump's next chief of staff.

Citing White House officials, The Journal reported that Ayers, 36, told Trump he couldn't commit to spending more than the first three months of next year in the job. Trump ultimately decided he wanted his next chief of staff to serve for a longer time frame, the outlet reported.

Trump said Saturday that he will name Kelly's replacement soon.

Republican Rep. Mark Meadows of North Carolina and Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney have been mentioned as top candidates for the job.

more at link.

[Swordsmyth]

Update: And the reports of all the candidates in the running for Trump's chief of staff role are beginning to trickle out.
About an hour after Axios said that Trump has been asking friends and associates about hiring Mark Meadows, the House Freedom Caucus leader, to be his next chief of staff, the Associated Press (https://www.apnews.com/c76216421a014e0794913b9eae97aa88) reported that Mick Mulvaney, who is presently running both the OMB and CFPB, is also a contender.
This isn't the first time Mulvaney has been rumored to be a possible chief of staff pick; he's been a perennial favorite (along with Ayers) for the role. Though his already hefty portfolio of responsibilities has been cited as one reason he might not be the best candidate. In addition to Meadows and Mulvaney, Trump is reportedly considering two others for the role, according to the AP. (https://www.apnews.com/c76216421a014e0794913b9eae97aa88)
Though it didn't name the other candidates.
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More at: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-12-09/nick-ayers-wont-be-next-white-house-chief-staff-wsj

[TheCount]

Well, we found the smart one.

[euphemia]

Dude has young triplets. I don’t imagine he would want to commit to a high-stress job for two years.

[Zippyjuan]

Dude has young triplets. I don’t imagine he would want to commit to a high-stress job for two years.

He is highly ambitious. He wants to run for office himself. If he was working for Trump for the next two years as Trump wants his Chief of Staff to do, he could not be running for an office in 2020. Some speculation he wants to be governor of Georgia.

[euphemia]

The triplets are about 6 years old now. They are in school. It’s a big deal.

Ayers isn’t very old. Washington is a relentless place. Not somewhere to raise a family.

[Swordsmyth]

President Donald Trump told Republican U.S. Representative Mark Meadows that he wants him to stay in Congress rather than take the White House chief of staff job, White House officials said on Wednesday.Meadows had been among 10 or 12 people that Trump is considering for the post that retired General John Kelly is leaving early in 2019.
Former Trump campaign adviser David Bossie, who is now the president of conservative nonprofit Citizens United, is still believed to be in the running.


Bossie wrote an opinion piece for Fox News published on Wednesday with the headline: "An unhinged pack of liberal Democrats wants to impeach Trump. Republicans must fight back."
Trump and Meadows, a North Carolina lawmaker who heads the conservative House Freedom Caucus, had a phone conversation to discuss the job, one White House official said.
"Congressman Mark Meadows is a great friend to President Trump and is doing an incredible job in Congress. The president told him we need him in Congress so he can continue the great work he is doing there," the official said.
Meadows said in a tweeted statement that he was committed to staying in Congress.
"I know the president has a long list of tremendous candidates for his next chief of staff, and whomever it is will have my total support going forward," he said.
Trump told Reuters in an interview on Tuesday that he was having no trouble recruiting people for one of the most powerful jobs in Washington. Some potential candidates like Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin have offered polite no-thank-yous.
“I have so many people, I cannot interview them all,” Trump told Reuters.


Beyond Bossie, Trump is also considering former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, sources said.
Bossie is a close ally of Corey Lewandowski, a confidant of Trump, and Bossie and Lewandowski were together at a rally in Louisiana on Wednesday.
A source, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said Lewandowski told the crowd at the rally that Bossie would soon be joining the administration. But Lewandowski later told Reuters he had not said that.
Bossie could not be immediately reached for comment.
In his opinion piece, Bossie warned Republicans in the House to prepare for "hand-to-hand combat, the likes of which they’ve never seen."
"After eight long years in the political wilderness, these House Democrats are about to take things straight into the gutter," he wrote. "They have no choice; their radical base wants impeachment at any cost, as do some of their biggest donors."

More at: https://news.yahoo.com/rep-meadows-running-white-house-chief-staff-officials-022150087.html

[Zippyjuan]

Maybe Jerrod Kushner. https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/donald-trump-chief-of-staff-jared-kushner_us_5c12c616e4b0f60cfa277b93

Trump had a press release ready to go saying that Ayers was going to get the job but then Ayers stunned him by saying he didn't want it. Now Trump is scrambling to find somebody else.


Trump Considering Son-In-Law Jared Kushner For Next Chief Of Staff

The president is in the third round of his search for a job not many people seem to want.

WASHINGTON ― Having run through his first choices for his chief of staff vacancy without any luck, President Donald Trump is considering his own son-in-law for the job.

Jared Kushner, the husband of Trump’s daughter Ivanka and already an official White House adviser, met with Trump Wednesday about the job, a top Republican close to the White House told HuffPost. He and two others close to Trump or the White House who confirmed Kushner’s interest in the position did so on condition of anonymity to discuss the president’s staffing considerations freely.

Kushner has been pushing his own candidacy with Trump, citing his work on a criminal justice reform package and a claimed ability to work with Democrats, one person said. “I don’t know why he thinks that, when the Democrats are mainly going to be coming after Trump,” the source said.

The White House did not respond to HuffPost’s queries about Kushner’s prospects for the job.

Trump told reporters Thursday that he is down to five finalists. “We are interviewing people now for chief of staff,” he said at a photo opportunity with newly elected governors who were visiting the White House.


It is unclear who the five finalists Trump claimed he was looking at are. Former deputy campaign manager David Bossie is scheduled to have lunch with Trump Friday at the White House. Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is also thought to be under consideration, while Trump is soliciting names from the legal community in New York City, where he lived his entire life before winning the presidency in 2016.

After Ayers turned the job down, Trump tried to recruit Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, United States Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer, top economic adviser Larry Kudlow and North Carolina Republican Congressman Mark Meadows, all of whom declined, one source said.