Donald Trump's transition team is already vetting potential candidates who could be in his administration when he returns to the White House in January 2025.
Susan Summerall Wiles, his campaign co-manager, will be White House chief of staff, Trump announced on Thursday, November 7.
Many from Trump's first administration have no plans to return, but a few loyal aides may.
Trump is now surrounded by new people who could fill his cabinet, the White House and hold key roles in the administration.
Here are some potential names.
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Robert F. Kennedy
Robert F. Kennedy (Robert Kennedy Jr.), a descendant of the Kennedy dynasty, was a member of the Democratic Party for most of his political career, but he recently left it, as he said - on principle.
The last two years have been quite exciting for him.
An environmental lawyer by profession, he ran for president as a Democrat.
The family supported Joe Biden's re-election and opposed his views on conspiracy theories and vaccines.
He then ran as an independent candidate, but due to a series of controversies, he failed to gain support and dropped out of the race, eventually supported Trump.
In the last two months of the election cycle, he led the initiative of the Trump campaign, called - "Make America Healthy Again".
Trump recently promised that Kennedy Jr. would play a major role in public health agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Food and Drug Safety Administration (FDA).
Robert F. Kennedy stated that he will advocate for the removal of fluoride from drinking water, because it is "a bad way for it to reach our bodies".
Some experts disputed those claims.
In an interview with NBS News, he rejected the idea that anti-vax and added that he will not "take away vaccines from anyone", but will provide people with "the best information" so that they can then make a choice.
Instead of a formal cabinet position, Kennedy used the interview to suggest that he might take on a broader role in the White House.
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Susie Weils
Trump's convincing victory over Kamala Harris was designed by Chris LaCivita and Susie Wiles, whom the new president of America called an "ice woman" in his victory speech on Wednesday, November 6.
Then it is confirmed that she will be the new boss cabinet of his second administration.
She thus became the first woman to hold this position.
Wiles, who Trump claimed "likes to be in the shadows," is considered one of the most respected political operatives in the country.
Less than a year after she started working in politics, she worked on Ronald Reagan's successful presidential campaign in 1980, and later became a planner in his White House.
In 2010, she managed to bring Rick Scott, then a businessman with little political experience, to the position of governor of Florida in just seven months.
Scott is now a US senator.
Wiles met Trump during the 2015 Republican primary.
She became the co-chairman of his campaign team in Florida, a state that was then among the "wavering states".
Trump narrowly defeated Hillary Clinton there in 2016.
Republicans praised Wiles for her ability to control the egos of people close to the president-elect.
That could help her impose a work ethic that previous Trump chiefs of staff have failed to do.
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Elon Musk
One of the richest people in the world, Elon Musk, announced his support for Trump in early 2024, although two years earlier he said it was time for the "controversial businessman to retire".
The tech billionaire committed more than $119 million to fund Super PAK, a group of wealthy Republican sympathizers, to help re-elect Trump.
Musk, the owner of Tesla, an electric vehicle company, Space X and the social network X, campaigned in the final weeks before the election to get out the polls in key states, offering $1 million to voters there.
Since registering as a Republican ahead of the 2022 "midterm elections," Musk has been increasingly vocal about immigration and transgender rights.
Trump said in early September that if he wins a second term, Musk could lead a new "Department of Government Efficiency," where he would cut costs, reform regulations and streamline what he calls a massive, suffocating federal bureaucracy.
The future agency's acronym, DOGE, refers to the "meme-coin" cryptocurrency that Musk previously promoted.
Mike Pompeo
The former congressman from Kansas was director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and then Secretary of State during Trump's first administration.
A foreign policy hawk and staunch supporter of Israel, he played a major role in moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
He was among the key players in the implementation of the Abraham Accords, which normalized relations between them Israel and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain.
He remained loyal to Trump, joking that there would be a "smooth transition into the second Trump administration," alluding to the 2020 election.
He has been mentioned as a top contender for the role of defense secretary, alongside Michael Waltz, a Florida lawmaker and military veteran who sits on the House Armed Services Committee.
Richard Grenell
Richard Grenell was Trump's ambassador to Germany, special envoy for the Balkans and acting director of National Intelligence.
He participated in Trump's attempts to reverse the election defeat in 2020, in the volatile state of Nevada.
Trump appreciates Grenell's loyalty and has described him as "his emissary."
In September, he attended Trump's private meeting with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
The former president has often claimed he would end the war in Ukraine "within 24 hours" of taking office, and Grenell has pushed for the establishment of an autonomous zone in eastern Ukraine as a means to that end, which Kiev finds unacceptable.
He has been seen as a candidate for secretary of state or national security adviser, a position that does not have to be confirmed by the Senate.
Kerolajn Lejvet
The spokeswoman for Trump's 2024 campaign team was also previously in his White House public relations office, as assistant press secretary.
A member of Generation Z (born between 1997 and 2012), she sought to be the youngest woman ever elected to Congress in 2022 to represent her home state of New Hampshire.
She failed.
It is assumed that she will become the spokeswoman of the White House, which is the most important position in the cabinet.
Tom Homan
Tom Homan was the acting director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during the first Trump administration.
At that time, he advocated the separation of children from their parents, in order to reduce illegal crossings.
The media mentioned him when he stated that politicians who support migration at the local level should be accused of crimes.
He resigned in 2018, while Trump was still in power.
Since then, he has become a key figure in the development of Trump's mass deportation plan.
He was a potential choice to head the Department of Homeland Security.
In an interview with CBS News, the BBC's American partner, Homan said that the deportation plan does not involve a "massive search of neighboring countries".
"There will be clear guidelines. We will know who we will arrest and where, based on numerous investigative processes, we will most likely find them," he said.
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