Don’t forget about Gens. Michael Flynn or Stanley McChrystal, neither of whom I know much about, but I think Trump loves our military and so they may be his top pick. Regarding Pence, just no. He’s wishy-washy.
Santorum has a very negative reputation with the gay population, so he’s out. I don’t mean “negative.” I mean VERY negative. They even named a bodily fluid after him last time around. (Update your anti-virus before searching for that; one of the top Google hits tried to infect me a fews years ago.)
People already said that Newt was made for Chief of Staff, and I agree. He’ll be the most useful to Trump in that role.
Any sitting senator needs to stay in the Senate, especially someone strong like Sessions. We’ll need people like him in the future. The other Senators who ran against Trump were Rubio and Rand Paul, both of whom are running for re-election.
Christie needs to be Attorney General, with maybe Rick Perry at Homeland Security.
Palin is too marginalized; besides, she’s likely going to Dept. of Energy to drill, baby, drill!
That leaves former Gov Brown, Mike Huckabee, the two generals, and Lt Col West, plus anyone else we don’t know about yet and anyone I’m forgetting.
My money is on Trump picking one of the Generals or Lt Col West, who has both military and legislative experience. (I don’t know if West supports Trump, though. He was supporting Cruz.)
OR, my personal favorite and long shot choice — Judge Jeanine. ;-) They’ve known each other for 30+ years and are good friends, but she’s like Newt in that she’ll tell him when he’s wrong about something.
I listened to West a lot during primaries and he seemed like he was On The Train