President Biden plans to nominate fmr. Republican Sen. Jeff Flake to be the U.S. ambassador to Turkey, according to a Biden admin. official.
July 13, 2021, 9:12 PM UTCJeff Flake, the former Republican senator from Arizona, is President Joe Biden's pick to be the U.S. ambassador to Turkey.
ahead of the Republican National Convention. At the time, he cited Trump's insistence that the only way he would lose the election was if it was rigged as one of the reasons for his decision. In his Medium post Tuesday, he said Biden's intent to nominate him"reaffirms the best tradition of American foreign policy and diplomacy: the credo that partisan politics should stop at the water’s edge. U.S. foreign policy can and should be bipartisan. That is my belief as well, and my commitment."
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