Ding! He is assessing his skills via this vetting / organizing ( and how he gets along with ) all that info so I see his total skill set to potentially run: HHS, Veterans, Surgeon General, or this Inner City Job / Potential Enterprise Zones in rough communites that he is hinting towards.
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Yep!
Yes, a kind of audition. But unlike Miss America there could be a number of winners, each with his or her own “prize.”