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Making the rounds on the Sunday news shows, Kellyanne Conway said she has concerns about Mitt Romney as secretary of state, but added that if that’s who President-elect Trump chooses, she will support his decision “1,000 percent.” “I’m a concerned citizen,” she told NBC’s Chuck Todd when asked if she was “campaigning against Mitt Romney as secretary of state.” Conway assured Todd she was not “campaigning” against the former GOP nominee and wasn’t trying to “make the news.” “People feel betrayed to think that Gov. Romney, who went out of his way to question the character and the intellect and...

When I suggested yesterday that Kellyanne Conway was being “less than loyal” to Donald Trump by sharply criticizing Mitt Romney on the Sunday shows, some readers took issue, surmising that Trump himself had encouraged Conway’s attacks. But today’s Morning Joe reported as Breaking News that two sources at the top of the transition say that Trump is “furious” at Conway for her comments, notably her suggestion that Trump had “betrayed” his supporters by considering Romney for Secretary of State. The sources described Conway as having gone “rogue.” Scarborough read a response from Conway in which she called the comments “sexist”...